Native support for UUID, even if the underlying persistence layer doesn't support a UUID data type. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-5387 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-5387 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: New Feature Reporter: Bill DeCoste - We worked around this issue by treating UUIDs as a string at the member level, then overrode the getter/setter functions to convert from string to UUID and vice-versa. This approach works, but is inefficient and suboptimal. It also prevented us from doing a proper PKClass override in a derived entity class (because UUID is hacked to be a String at the member level, and a UUID type at the property getter/setter level). - Besides native support for UUID built into Hibernate for all supported persistence dialects, it'd be nice to be able to specify custom object serializers/deserializers. - Support for methods 1, 2 and 5 of UUID would be great (since the standard Java implementation lacks this ability). On method 2, allow the specification of domain and UID components. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - If you think it was sent incorrectly contact one of the administrators: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/Administrators.... - For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira