Does Hibernate create tables in the database automatically

your hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto setting should be defining that the database is created (options are validate, create, update or create-drop)

Yes it does in your case because of the below property in your config. This is ok during testing but in production you need to disable this.

<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>

For me it wasn't working even with hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto set to update. It turned out that the generated creation SQL was invalid, because one of my column names (user) was an SQL keyword. This failed softly, and it wasn't obvious what was going on until I inspected the logs.

add following property in your hibernate.cfg.xml file

<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>

BTW, in your Entity class, you must define your @Id filed like this:

@Id
@GeneratedValue(generator = "increment")
@GenericGenerator(name = "increment", strategy = "increment")
@Column(name = "id")
private long id;

if you use the following definition, it maybe not work:

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
@Column(name = "id")
private long id;