Add default name support for @Index ------------------------------------ Key: ANN-160 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-160 Project: Hibernate Annotations Issue Type: Improvement Components: binder Affects Versions: 3.1beta6 Reporter: Leonardo Quijano Attachments: Index.patch Currently the "name" parameter for @Index is required. A default naming strategy could be used with @Index annotations, though, allowing the app to pick default names if the parameter is not specified. For example: Foo.java { @Index public String getSomePropertyValue() } This would generate a DB index called "foo_some_property_value_index", for example. Of course, that would depend on the naming strategy. A useful approach would be to use "entity" + "propertyName" + "index_suffix" based on the current NamingStrategy object. Specifying index names on all required properties is very verbose and could lead to errors.