Hi all,

I'm trying to use Hibernate with a table with no primary key. It does have a VARCHAR column which uniquely identifies each row, to use the cat example it looks something like this (of course I'm not dealing with cats):

unique_name varchar
age int
weight int
color varchar

the table is not used in any joins which is why it has no PK. Is there any way to tell Hibernate to use the unique_name varchar column as the ID field?

Thanks!

Sure - when you create the mapping for the table just define that column as the identity for the object.