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Hibernate version: 3.1

Mapping documents:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd" >

<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="pack.I18nTest"
table="i18ntest">

<id name="id" column="id" type="java.lang.Long">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>

<property name="description" type="I18nlabel"
column="description" />
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>



Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():

Full stack trace of any exception that occurs:

Name and version of the database you are using: MySQL 4.1

The generated SQL (show_sql=true):

Debug level Hibernate log excerpt:

From my tests, it seems that if I do not specify the property name for id in the hbm file above, meaning if I delete the 'name="id"' from the mapping, the id will not be populated with the autogenerated value from the database (the entity is saved, everything else works as expected). I don't know if this is how it is intended to be, or is a bug, that's why I posted it here, maybe somebody can check and if it's a bug than someone can fill a bug with it (I don't think I have the right to fill in issues in jira)

thanks

its a documented (not recommended) feature which allows you to persist objects with no actual id property and let the hibernate session manage the id internally.