Hibernate duplicate entry

Question

I have Registration table.That has many duplicate entries. Here duplicate entries in terms of same username. so I want to know how to prevent the duplicate entries in a table. I am using Hibernate and java servlet.

Answer 1

You should create an unique constraint on the username.

@Entity
@Table(uniqueConstraints=
           @UniqueConstraint(columnNames = {"username"})) 
public class Registration {
    //...
}