deprecate ability for entities to not define identifier properties ------------------------------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-1229 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1229 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Deprecation Components: core, documentation Reporter: Steve Ebersole Assignee: Gavin King Fix For: 3.1 currently Hibernate allows mapping of entities which do not contain their identifier as property(ies). This is the <id column="my_id">...</id> syntax (notice no 'name' attribute). It then exposes several methods on the session to handle these entities by explicitly passing in the identifier value, so that Session.save(myEntity) becomes Session.save(myEntity, myEntityId). All such methods need to get moved to classic.Session and marked for deprecation. No scheduled removal of feature as of yet.