Hi, I am trying to use Hibernate tools for Eclipse version 3.2.4, to reverse engineer an Oracle schema. This is a legacy system that used Middlegen in the past to generate pojo for our persistence objects.

My current problem is that Hibernate tools is creating composite keys and naming them ‘id’. I would like them to be named ‘comp_id’. This is what our existing code is expecting but can’t find how to do this.

How can I force Hibernate tools to give all composite keys a name of ‘comp_id’ instead of ‘id’? Is this possible to do automatically for all tables with composite keys or do I have to specify a Table element for each table in the reverse engineering strategy file or is there some other way to accomplish this?

Thanks for your help.
Tom

Since no one answered me I will post what I used as a solution to this problem in case someone else has a similar issue.

I ended up creating my own version of these template files:

PojoConstructors.ftl, PojoFields.ftl and PojoPropertyAccessors.ftl.

In each I checked if the property name is equal to 'id' and if so, changed it to the name I want, 'comp_id' using something like this throughout.

<#if property.name.equals("id")>

I'm not sure if this is the best way to do this or even the only way to do this but it seems to have worked for me in this case.