Problems mapping UUID in JPA/hibernate

Question

According to the documentation, hibernate 3.6 should have support for the java.util.UUID type. But when I map it like:

@Id protected UUID uuid;

Answer 1

Don't use the type UUID, because you'd need a custom type to handle it.

Use String. See this post. It is one way of implementing it.

Another way is to use the UUID generator built in hibernate. You'd need @GeneratedValue with a generator named hibernate-uuid