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I have seen this in the CustomerServiceImpl.java



I would like to know if I really could use the same method for my custom entity something like..

com.mycompany.core.catalog.domain.MyCustomer by simply doing the following..



or do I need to do anything else apart from that?

Thanks in advance. Hope you will reply as soon as possible.

Customers work that way specifically so that customers do not have to be persisted immediately but can be later persisted into the database.

Customer IDs are a very one-off case and 99% of the time you should use the way IDs are generated in the rest of the application. Take ProductImpl for instance:



This will use a 'ProductImpl' key in the SEQUENCE_GENERATOR table to obtain IDs. This is what we recommend for ID generation for new entities.

So, just adding the entity with a name and with a val in the SEQUENCE_GENERATOR table will be enough and then marking it as in the ProductImpl with annotations.

Do I need anything apart from that?

By the way, what is ID_VAL in that table?

Thanks in advance. Hope you will reply as soon as possible.

Yes, just adding that annotation just like in ProductImpl with obviously changed values for the annotation is enough. ID_VAL is what Hibernate uses to determine the actual sequence number.

What is this ID_VAL? Is it the starting number or the difference between two successive ids?