Is there a way to control the order of the columns in the tables generated using forward mapping? It seems that the columns come out in the following order:
id column other columns sorted alphabetically foreign key columns Is there a way to get the "other columns" in the order they are declared in the Java class, or to specify the order in some other way? I tried using XML metadata instead of annotations, but the following also results in a table with columns ordered: id, a, b, c, d. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <entity-mappings xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm_1_0.xsd"; version="1.0"> <entity class="com.example.TestEntity"> <attributes> <id name="id"></id> <basic name="c"></basic> <basic name="a"></basic> <basic name="d"></basic> <basic name="b"></basic> </attributes> </entity> </entity-mappings> Alphabetic ordering of fields make the data in the database hard to browse since logically grouped columns are not together. Thanks, Mark
