hibernateormjpajava-ee-6jpa-2.0

Is it illegitimate to name an JPA entity "Group"?

I'm developing a JEE6-application, using JPA 2.0 and Hibernate 3.5.2-Final as the Provider (and MySQL 5.1.41). My Application Server is Glassfish V3.0.1. I already have a working CRUD-app with some entities and relationships.

Now i added an (really simple) entity with the name "Group". The entity class looks like this:

package model
//Imports...
@Entity
public class Group {
  @Id @GeneratedValue
  private Long id;

  @NotNull
  private String name;

  //Getters and Setters
}

Of course I also added it to the persistence.xml, like <class>model.Group</class>. My persistence.xml drops and recreates all tables on deploy.

So when i deploy my application, the tables for all my entities are generated, except for the table group. In the hibernate logs, i discovered the following error (which doesn't prevent the application to be deployed)

[#|2010-06-30T11:54:29.862+0200|INFO|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder|_ThreadID=11;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Binding entity from annotated class: model.Group|#]
[#|2010-06-30T11:54:29.862+0200|INFO|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.EntityBinder|_ThreadID=11;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Bind entity model.Group on table Group|#]
[#|2010-06-30T11:54:33.773+0200|SEVERE|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport|_ThreadID=11;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Unsuccessful: create table Group (id bigint not null auto_increment, name varchar(255) not null, primary key (id))|#]
[#|2010-06-30T11:54:33.773+0200|SEVERE|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport|_ThreadID=11;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Group (id bigint not null auto_increment, name varchar(255) not null, primary ke' at line 1|#]
[#|2010-06-30T11:54:54.883+0200|INFO|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder|_ThreadID=25;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Binding entity from annotated class: model.Group|#]
[#|2010-06-30T11:54:54.884+0200|INFO|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.EntityBinder|_ThreadID=25;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Bind entity model.Group on table Group|#]
[#|2010-06-30T11:54:58.402+0200|SEVERE|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport|_ThreadID=25;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Unsuccessful: create table Group (id bigint not null auto_increment, name varchar(255) not null, primary key (id))|#]
[#|2010-06-30T11:54:58.403+0200|SEVERE|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport|_ThreadID=25;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'Group (id bigint not null auto_increment, name varchar(255) not null, primary ke' at line 1|#]

Now when i rename the entity to something like "MyGroup" (the properties stay the same), alter the persistence.xml accordingly, and redeploy my app, the table "MyGroup" is successfully created! I found the following lines in the logs showing that MyGroup is correctly created:

[#|2010-06-30T11:58:51.456+0200|INFO|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder|_ThreadID=11;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Binding entity from annotated class: model.MyGroup|#]
[#|2010-06-30T11:58:51.456+0200|INFO|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.EntityBinder|_ThreadID=11;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Bind entity model.MyGroup on table MyGroup|#]
[#|2010-06-30T11:59:21.569+0200|INFO|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationBinder|_ThreadID=25;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Binding entity from annotated class: model.MyGroup|#]
[#|2010-06-30T11:59:21.569+0200|INFO|glassfish3.0.1|org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.EntityBinder|_ThreadID=25;_ThreadName=Thread-1;|Bind entity model.MyGroup on table MyGroup|#]

Anyone got an idea what the problem is? Okay, i could just rename Group to MyGroup, but i really want to know what's going on here. Is there any restriction i should now of, like "don't call an entity Group"? But if it is so, why is the error i get so unclear?

Solution

  • Group is a reserved word in your database MySQL see here

    package model
//Imports...
@Entity
@Table(name = "group_table")
public class Group {
  @Id @GeneratedValue
  private Long id;

  @NotNull
  private String name;

  //Getters and Setters
}

    edit See @Pascals answer for JPA 2.0 way if you want to use words reserved in your db instance.