Hibernate should handle hbm.auto = update with views ---------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-1872 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-1872 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Improvement Components: metamodel Affects Versions: 3.2.0.cr2 Reporter: Sami Dalouche Priority: Minor Let's consider a situation where Hibernate domain objects are mapped to a view. Everything works fine unless hbm.auto = update. In this case, Hibernate tries to update the schema, and of course, it fails. In this case, hibernate should detect that the object is a view, and only check whether the schema is compatible. It should not try to update the metadata.