Ive been noticing that most people are using Long as opposed to long. Does hibernate not support primitives or are there shortcommings with using them?

Thanks in advance
jm

It's a bit akward to use as an identifier type (e.g. you have to call Session.load(new Long(longvalue)), also on other API methods), but I don't know a good reason why you shouldn't use them. It's really your choice for your domain classes.

it's not because of null value?

Obviously :)

i said that because i've seen many beginners that didn't realised that primitives cannot have null value... ;)

Gotcha, so the lack of a value in the database(NULL) results in a Long obj = null? That makes sense. If one were to use long, I guess it would default to 0 or something so the NULL state wouldn't be detected. Thanks again.

jm