Hibernate does not allow String as Primary Key (where I have @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO) as well) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HIBERNATE-125 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/HIBERNATE-125 Project: Hibernate Integration Issue Type: Bug Environment: JBoss 6 Reporter: Matthias Wessendorf Assignee: Steve Ebersole Priority: Critical Attachments: JBoss.war, JBossLocal.war I have the following in my persistence.xml: <property name="hibernate.dialect" value="org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect"/> <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" value="create"/> but hibernate is not creating my MySQL tables