[ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1829?page=all ] Andrew Seales updated HHH-1829: ------------------------------- Attachment: hhh-1829.patch I've started working on a patch for this issue as we're using a legacy database and need to do a join that doesn't use a primary key. I have a working patch at the moment which seems to fix the issue(at least for our uses), although I'm not sure how 'nice' it is. When I looked through the code, I couldn't see the 'property-ref' attribute in the <key> tag being stored anywhere so I have added it to the KeyValue interface. This value is also stored in the AbstractEntityPersister class, similarly to rootTableKeyColumnNames. When the join is made, a check is performed to see if an alternative key should be used in the join. If there is no property-ref specified then the primary keys are used, otherwise the property-ref column is used. -- 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