Re: [hibernate-dev] Naming and "naming strategies"

On 16 Jan 2015, at 18:37, Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org&gt; wrote: On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Steve Ebersole <steve(a)hibernate.org <mailto:steve@hibernate.org>> wrote: I have one question, regarding logical name. The name that a given user needs to use inside say @Column( …, table=“SomeEntity1”) is the name that comes out of the implicit naming contract (assuming the original table was implicit). Is that correct? This is true. But remember that this is mainly intended to signify a secondary table, whose name cannot be implicit. Also, I think that mixing implicit naming and explicit naming and expecting that to work is not necessarily a valid expectation. I just wanted to clarify here a bit. As far as I know, the only time that this could be a problem is when we need @Column to refer to the primary table and the name of the primary table is implicit. But JPA designs for that by saying that @Column is expected to refer to the primary table when @Column#table is null or not specified. What I was saying above was this, imo, it is not a reasonable for this to work: @Entity public Customer { @Column( ..., table="Customer" ) ... } I just think that makes no sense. Am I missing any potential uses where @Column#table would refer to something that might reasonably be implicit?