Hi,

Hibernate version: 2.8.1

Name and version of the database you are using: Oracle 8i

I have a requirement to generate the primary key ID in my code before Hibernate is called to auto-generate it. How do I achieve this?

The way I understand, following is specified in mapping for hibernate to generate the primary key:
<id name="id" column="ID">
<generator class="uuid.hex" />
</id>

However, I don't want Hibernate to generate this. I wish to generate the primary key using VMID, and set it into the object, and Hibernate should just use it to store the data, and make related foreign keys.

Let me know if there's any way to do this.

Thanks,
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Jikes

Just remove the generator element or use <generator class="assigned"/> indicating that your application will assign the IDs.

Thanks. This was what I was looking for.