Hibernate not respecting MySQL auto_increment primary key field

Question

I am trying to learn how Hibernate works, and I am running into an almost unacceptable learning curve. I can\'t see how to get Hibernate to respect the auto_increment policy

Answer 1

I think GenerationType.AUTO is right as is

Picks an appropriate strategy for the particular database.

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/ejb3-api/javax/persistence/GenerationType.html

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/en/html/mapping.html