Hi,

I have a requirement that a non-key column of a table be updated with a brand-new number when certain types of updates happen for a row. What I want to do (in a portable manner) is to get the next sequence number from some sequence generator and assign the specific property of the persistent object to that value.

As far as I could tell, sequence number generation is tied to primary keys.

Is there any way I can access the mechanisms of getting a new sequence number without actually performing an insert into some table.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Krishnan

Use the same code as in the id package. There is no built-in support