5.1.4.6. Primary keys assigned by triggers
For legacy schemas only (Hibernate does not generate DDL with triggers).
<id name="id" type="long" column="person_id">
<generator class="select">
<param name="key">socialSecurityNumber</param>
</generator>
</id>
In the above example, there is a unique valued property named socialSecurityNumber defined by the class, as a natural key, and a surrogate key named person_id whose value is generated by a trigger.