Hi I sent a post recently (too detailed obviously, since noone has commented on it :-) regarding some features we require that hibernate is currently not implementing. So here goes again, one more descriptive post per feature.
One of those is explicitly named primary key constraints. The basic theory is that instead of primary keys being declared in a DDL in a manner such as: create table y k number(19,0), f varchar(2), primary key(k) it should be possible to declare as create table y k number(19,0), f varchar(2), constraint pk_y primary key(k) This is a syntax supported by many databases, at least Oracle, DB2 and HSQLDB (those I have tested). For starters, hbm.xml files need a place to store the primary key name. Primary keys are associated with id elements in Hibernate (id, composite-id), so it seems straightforward to associate a "primary-key" attribute to those elements. We then need code changes to bind those attributes and make them available for DDL generation. This almost certainly means an addition to the Dialect class as well. Please let me know if I'm not approaching this from the right angle... Thanks -Gudlaugur Egilsson ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ hibernate-devel mailing list hibernate-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hibernate-devel
