How to insert new items with Hibernate?

Question

I have an entity class called Task which is mapped in hibernate.

I\'m able to fetch existing items belonging to this class correctly, so I don\'t think

Answer 1

Got this to work with the help of this link: http://www.coderanch.com/t/487173/ORM/databases/hibernate-sequence-exist

Apparently hibernate looks for sequence tables for generating the id. Setting the following:

@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)

on the id, causes it to use the underlying db's auto increment and not try to generate the id itself, and now it works.