[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Closed: (HHH-2492) Enable <generator> tag for non primary key columns that are autogenerated or is an identity

Enable <generator> tag for non primary key columns that are autogenerated or is an identity ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-2492 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2492 Project: Hibernate3 Type: New Feature

Versions: 3.2.2 Environment: 3.2.2, Oracle 9i, SQL Server 2000 Reporter: Manoj Pallikkattil

Currently hibenate allow <generator> tag for primary keys, i.e inside the <id> tag. It would be good if we can use the generator tag for non primary key columns also. Our current datamodel has a UUID char 32 as the primary key and ID column which is a sequence for Oracle and an Identity for SQL Server is a unique key. I could get this to work with Oracle using Parameterized User Type but I have not been able to achieve this for SQL Server since the identity column is filled on the insert. If we could use the <generator> tag inside a <property> tag this would resolve this issue.