My team is applying hibernate to an existing database. We currently have java classes to map to database tables and are looking to switch the classes to use hibernate. The classes use the standard java naming convention for their gets and sets (getName, setName). However, Hibernate does not always accept the current names and seems to want the setter and getter names to be all lower case (getname, setname) for some classes and accept the current names for others.

I was wondering if there is any way to tell hibernate in the property section, or any section for that matter, to use a specified getter or setter rather than determine it on its own. It would also be nice to know why hibernate would sometimes accept the method names and sometime not.

We are using Hibernate 3.0 and PostgreSQL 8.0

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if you use standard java beans namings then hibernate will pick it up.

You must give concrete examples for us to help out.


(if you just want to hack then set the accesor property to a class that conforms to your naming strategy)

Hibernate is using the class:

org.hibernate.property.BasicPropertyAccessor

to access the properties. You can write your
own Property-Accessor, if you do not like
the default naming strategy.

I am having a similar problem where the properties are named "_name" and the getters and setters are "getName" and "setName". When I run I get the following error:

------------> Initial SessionFactory creation failed. org.hibernate.PropertyNotFoundException: Could not find a getter for _epoch in class best.simulation.components.environment.atmosphere.vis_ir_radiation_transport.GetThermalRTCalcCache

I am having a similar problem where the properties are named "_name" and the getters and setters are "getName" and "setName". When I run I get the following error:

------------> Initial SessionFactory creation failed. org.hibernate.PropertyNotFoundException: Could not find a getter for _epoch in class best.simulation.components.environment.atmosphere.vis_ir_radiation_transport.GetThermalRTCalcCache

if the getters and setters are getName and setName then the property name *is* "Name" - not "_name" which more look like an implementation detail.