Hi,
I have database model that have two columns common to every table:

ownerid, and updateSequenceNumber

since these columns can be populated by automatical means (for example; updateSeqnr is a number that is incremented for each row insert), and they are for sole infrastructural needs (not relevant to domain), I didn't include them in the domain objects. Also placing them into domain objects will bring unnecessary complexity.

under these circumstances, i am wondering how i can make hibernate include these fields with the generated insert query? their values could be obtained from elsewhere, this is the second part of the problem. what i'm really challenged is to make hibernate insert values into unmapped, non property columns.

thanks in advance,
regards

Hibernate version:3.1

Mapping documents: annotation based mapping

Name and version of the database you are using: oracle

I have poked with EntityPersister to create a customized entity persister that overrides EntityPersister.generateInsertString. But I think this is not the best way since it injects non property column values with sql string manipulation. Any other ideas please?