"tonylmai" wrote : | | Can I create a new object of this class with just the message and let Hibernate create the id? | Yes "tonylmai" wrote : | In the database end, do I create the table for this entity with column id declared as bigint? | Hibernate does this automatically for you if you set "hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto" property to "create" View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4024418#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...