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Re: How to specify a custom id generator

From: Farrukh S. Najmi <farrukh_at_wellfleetsoftware.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 09:21:21 -0400

Farrukh S. Najmi wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> In my application that uses Java Persistence (and does not use EJBs), I
> would like to specify a custom id generator similar to
> org.hibernate.id.UUIDHexGenerator. It is not clear from reading the spec
> how this can be accomplished. Thanks for any pointers you can provide.
>
>
To be clearer....

What I would like to do is to specify a GeneratedValue annotion on an
@id field in my entity class such that
a strategy can be specified that uses a custom id generator class (e.g.
a UUID generator class). What is the
best way to accomplish this? Thanks.

-- 
Regards,
Farrukh
Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com