I am using hibernate annotations and would like to use natural id.

It seems there is currently no support for this, since the only thing I find when I try to google it is suggestions for adding support for it.

Is there a workaround to solve this problem? Can I use hbm files for just the affected class, and annotations for the rest?

Or is there another way?

Hi!

Sorry, I do not know anything about your primary problem, but...



this is possible. You can mix annotations and mapping files and access classes from one definition to the other (wild speculation: I imagine, that Hibernate annotations just transfers the annotations into the internal format, resulting in the same internal data structure as classes specified in mapping files).

All the best,

René