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I've scoured through Hibernate in Action, and Hibernate Quickly and through this forum trying to find an answer to this question. I have a table that has not primary key or unique key. When I generate a hbm.xml file for this table from eclipse. There is an error because there is no identifer in that table stating a primary key. Although I can add one such as a numeric value to each row, I wanted to know if it is possible to put in a dummy id tag with a dummy column?


Hibernate version: 3

Mapping documents:

Here is the hbm.xml file:
<class name="RefAddressValidation" table="REF_ADDRESS_VALIDATION">

<property name="postcode" column="POSTCODE" type="string"
not-null="true" />
<property name="stateprovcode" column="STATEPROVCODE"
type="string" />
<property name="city" column="CITY" type="string"
not-null="true" />
<property name="county" column="COUNTY" type="string" />
<property name="preference" column="PREFERENCE" type="string" />
<property name="validity" column="VALIDITY" type="string" />
<property name="countryid" column="COUNTRYID" type="string" />
<property name="stateprovname" column="STATEPROVNAME"
type="string" />
<property name="shiptoflag" column="SHIPTOFLAG" type="byte" />
</class>

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nope, check out the DTD you will see that ID must be there