Hibernate without Primary Key

Question

I making a sample application with Hibernate. My requirement is that there is no primary key on the table. I had to do only select query from application. I know there shoul

Answer 1

1. Hibernate requires that entity tables have primary keys. End of story.
2. 50k records is simply not that many when you're talking about a database.

My advice: add an autoincrement integer PK column to the table. You'll be surprised at how fast it is.