The contents are identical to Section 2.1, “The Hibernate configuration file”, with one important difference. The mapping element at the very end naming the annotated entity class using the class attribute.

The entity class in this tutorial is org.hibernate.tutorial.annotations.Event which follows JavaBean conventions. In fact the class itself is identical to the one in Section 2.2, “The entity Java class”, except that annotations are used to provide the metadata, rather than a separate hbm.xml file.

@Entity
@Table( name = "EVENTS" )
public class Event {
    ...
}

The @javax.persistence.Entity annotation is used to mark a class as an entity. It functions the same as the class mapping element discussed in Section 2.3, “The mapping file”. Additionally the @javax.persistence.Table annotation explicitly specifies the table name. Without this specification, the default table name would be EVENT).

@Id
@GeneratedValue(generator="increment")
@GenericGenerator(name="increment", strategy = "increment")
public Long getId() {
    return id;
}

public String getTitle() {
    return title;
}

@Temporal(TemporalType.TIMESTAMP)
@Column(name = "EVENT_DATE")
public Date getDate() {
    return date;
}

As in Section 2.3, “The mapping file”, the date property needs special handling to account for its special naming and its SQL type.

org.hibernate.tutorial.annotations.AnnotationsIllustrationTest is essentially the same as org.hibernate.tutorial.hbm.NativeApiIllustrationTest discussed in Section 2.4, “Example code”.