generated="never|insert|always" ------------------------------- Key: HHH-988 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-988 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: core Reporter: Gavin King Assignee: Steve Ebersole Priority: Minor Fix For: 3.1 rc 1 It would be nice to be able to handle property values that are generated by the database only at insert time, and are then immutable. Propose changing generated="true|false" to generated="never|insert|always". This should be easy to implement, I suppose.