I have created the following entity bean, and specified two columns as being unique. Now my problem is that the table is created without the unique constraint, and no errors
Well, I found another way to make the design. More because the design evolved than a work around.
I heard however from a colleague, that had had the same problem, that unique constraint only are created by hibernate (we are running JBoss 4.3) when the entire database is created. It will not work when you create a new table in an existing database.
So in persistence.xml it is necessary to set hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto
to create-drop
to make it work. I can not confirm this though.