tricks in hibernate id selection

[gk]

I see there are increment , identity or sequence , hilo or seqhilo
, assigned , foreign etc are identity selector in hibernate .

can anybody explain how to select an id out of this above list for
an application ?

 

[Robert Klemme]

I see there are increment , identity or sequence , hilo or seqhilo
, assigned , foreign etc are identity selector in hibernate .

can anybody explain how to select an id out of this above list for
an application ?

If you are referring to id generation: I prefer "native" as this is most
portable.

<id name="id" unsaved-value="null" column="foo_id">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>

Kind regards

robert