Hi there..
I have a foreign key relationship between two classes for example Person and ShippingAddress. So in the database, the Person has a foreign key mapping to the ShippingAddress primary key.

I was able to create an association successfuly using a mapping like :
<many-to-one name="shipAddId"
column="SHIPID"
class="blah"
unique="true"
not-null="true"/>

The problem is that I dont really want to map to an entity.. i just want to get the primary key. So that in my person class I have getters and setter returning an Integer representing the shipAddID.

Not sure how to do that.. can anyone help.. is there any hibernate feature that would support that.. so far in my experience hibernate is really flexible so i'm sure there must be something.. can anyone please help :)

if my perception of ur prob is correct, im afraid u cant do it unless u dont ask hibernates help for the associating your entities .


may be u can still do it the hibernate way and use an appropriate HQL or criteria query according to your needs .

any other sugesstions are welcome too... :)