I need to create a hibernate mapping that reads from a view, but writes to one of the tables that the view is based upon. The view provides several read-only generated fields that I need to have populated in my class. The view is not updateable, at least MySQL 5 won't let me update it. I have scoured the documentation, but I still cannot figure out how to accomplish this. I'm probably overlooking something simple. Can someone enlighten me? -- Warren Smith