If you do not specify a generator type, the default is AUTO. The strategy attribute must be a value from the enumeration. OR a more complex use can, Integer employeeId OR you can use annotation takes a pair of attributes: strategy and generator as below: (strategy = GenerationType.SEQUENCE) Integer getEmployeeId()īy default, the annotation will not create a primary key generation strategy, which means that you, as the code’s author, need to determine what valid primary keys are, by setting them explicitly by calling setter methods. Additionally, you can apply extra logic to the setting of ‘ id‘ field in mutator for other fields as well. This gives the flexibility to alter the value of the actual value set in id field if needed. Property access means that Hibernate will call the mutator/setter instead of actually setting the field directly, what it does in case of field access. If the annotation is applied to the accessor for the field then property access will be used. If the annotation is applied to a field as shown below, then “ field access” will be used. The placement of the annotation determines the default access strategy that Hibernate will use for the mapping. Typically, the primary key will be a single field, though it can also be a composite of multiple fields which we will see in later sections.

Primary Keys with and entity bean has to have a primary key, which you annotate on the class with the annotation.

There are some more rules such as POJO class must not be final, and it must not be abstract as well. Ideally, we should make this constructor public, which makes it highly compatible with other specifications as well. Hibernate supports package scope as the minimum, but we lose portability to other JPA implementations because they might be allowing only protected level scope. The annotation marks this class as an entity bean, so the class must have a no-argument constructor that is visible with at least protected scope (JPA specific).

To do this, we need to apply annotation as follows: class EmployeeEntity implements Serializable shall be the first step in marking the POJO as a JPA entity. public class EmployeeEntity implements SerializableĢ. This tutorial first defines a POJO “ EmployeeEntity” and some fields, respective getter and setter methods.Īs we learn the new annotations, we will apply these annotations to this EmployeeEntity and then we will understand what that specific annotation means.

We need hibernate-core as a mandatory dependency. Start with importing the required dependencies.

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