when does hibernate default works

van · **Joined:** Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:43 pm **Posts:** 1

Hi,
Can anyone explain why the default attribute is not working for me.

<property name="createdOn" type="date" >
<column name="CREATED_ON" default = " ' sysdate' " />
</property>

If I dont set a date for the createdOn field, I expected current date to be present in the table.
Did I miss something over there?

I do not want to do this default initialization in my java setter methods

mmerder · **Posted:** Wed Nov 25, 2009 6:50 am

the default expression is passed to the database create-statement. If hibernate does not create the db, it does not take effect (neither if you have hbm2ddl set to auto on an already existing table).