Initial SessionFactory creation failed.java.lang.ClassCastException: org.hibernate.type.BigDecimalType cannot be cast to org.hibernate.type.VersionType

For the above exception, I understand the problem and it is that one of the reverse engineered DB Table contains "version" as a field name.
I can fix this by fixing the .hbm.xml, by changing the <version> .... </version> to <property> .... </property>

But I was wondering if someone know how to fix this issue
IF I what if I DON"T want to use the hbm.xml and directly use the
SessionFactory sf = new AnnotatedConfiguration
.configure()
.addPackage("Pkgname")
.addAnnotatedClass("tablewithversionasfield.class")
.buildSessionFactory()

I am not sure how to resolve this error WITHOUT FIXING the hbm.xml file workaround. I cannot change the DB table field and I have to fix it in the hibernate auto generated code. Please advise. Thanks.

Can you try by using annotations

Hi

I have already used annotation for the reverese engineering and also used the addAnnotatedClass to add the generated class to the session factory. A simple scenario in which this failure can be reproduced is to have the following:
1. Have a SQL table with version field in it as an integer type.
2. Then use the hibernator reverse engineering tool to reverse engineer the table and get a beans out (with annotations).
3. Inside the annotated Beans, you should see a method called getVersion() (and I think it conflicts with some other getVersion used internally by hibernate which seems to expect a VersionType).

4. Similarly, if you generate a .hbm.xml from the same reverse engineering process you will see the xml for this field"version" in the table marked with <version> ... <\version> instead of <property> .... </property>. The only way I have found so far to fix the problem is to open this file and change the version to property and then create the sessionFactory by using the hbm.xml.


If I use the addAnnotatedClass option, I cannot do this fix by myself and it doesn't work and throws the cast exception. Hence my question.