I'm following the Chapter 1 Tutorial found at:
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3. ... orial.html
About 2/3 of the way down it states:
"If you need the identifiers of a person and an event - the save() method returns it ".
However, the save() method does not return a Long type. I'm not even sure what type it returns.
Does anybody know?

If you use generator class native, as the example does,
then the returned id type depends on the underlying database.
The example of the tutorial is based on hsqldb as database.
Which database are you using indeed ?

To know which type you get concretly, you can do following:
Object obj = session.save(person);
System.out.println(obj.getClass().getName());

Hi,
I'm using HSQLDB - as the tutorial instructs. Since I am using Maven on the command line, I didn't use System.out.println statements, and assumed everything should just work. I do have the following code in my Person.hbm.xml:


I'll try to debug the save() method to see what's going on.