March 19th 2008 Archives

Mar 19, 2008

Limitation of Hibernate

Posted by Anandhan Subbiah in Java, Programming Concepts, Technical Articles • No comments

First and foremost, Hibernate wants every entity to be identifiable with a primary key. Ideally, it would like this to be a surrogate key (a single column distinct from the fields of the table). Hibernate will accept a primary key that is not a surrogate key. For example, the username column might be used to [...]