Hibernate Tips: How to use a custom database sequence
Hibernate Tips is a series of posts in which I describe a quick and easy solution for common Hibernate questions. If you have a question you like me to answer, please leave a comment below.
Generate Primary Keys Using JPA and Hibernate
How do you get the primary key values in your application? Do you use natural keys or do you generate technical IDs? I prefer to generate simple, numerical, technical IDs like you can see in the following code snippet instead of using natural keys which often require the combination of multiple attributes. @Id private Long…