Package org.hibernate.generator

This package defines an abstraction over all kinds of automatic value generation, including id generation and version number generation. The root abstraction is the interface Generator.

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
AnnotationBasedGenerator<A extends Annotation>	A Generator which receives parameters from a custom generator annotation or id generator annotation.
BeforeExecutionGenerator	A generator that is called to produce a value just before a row is written to the database.
Generator	Describes the generation of values of a certain field or property of an entity.
GeneratorCreationContext	Access to information useful during Generator creation and initialization.
OnExecutionGenerator	A generator which produces a new value by actually going ahead and writing a row to the database, then retrieving the value which was generated by the database itself as a side effect of the SQL insert or update statement which wrote the row.

Class Summary

Class	Description
EventTypeSets	For convenience, enumerates the possible combinations of EventType.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
EventType	Enumerates event types that can result in generation of a new value.