I wan't to to generate a id with uuid.hex. I dont want to use it in connection with a db. Sounds strange but i have generate 500 such ids and map them with other attributes. How can i generate this id with uuid.hex? I use Eclipse and have implemented the hibernate.jar into the buildpath. Iam a newbie in hibernate. I only need this functionallity.

---edekette

Don't understand. Do you want to generate UUIDs as primary keys for a table? If so, <generator class="uuid"/> will do that for you in your primary key mapping. You want to get a UUID outside of the context of persistence? There are many examples on the web of UUID generators. There's one in Hibernate (org.hibernate.id.UUIDHexGenerator).