[Create DB Structure with Hibernate] Foreign key names

malkolinge · **Joined:** Mon Nov 13, 2006 4:55 am **Posts:** 3

Dear collegues !
we use hibernate for creating Database structure.
While the creation, for foreign key HIbernate uses names like FK8A84412B977E841 and so on. We suppose , Hibernate uses object hash codes or something like that, because when we add new column to a table the foreign key is also changed. Is It possible to make hibernate to use more friendly names ?

MikePloed · **Posted:** Mon Nov 13, 2006 7:59 am

Hi,
this is possible by providing the foreign-key attribute. This is just a simple example using xml configuration:

Code:

<many-to-one name="propertyA" class="ClassA" column="PROP_A_ID" foreign-key="FK_PROP_A_ID"/>