Workaround needed: New Entity Class from Database cannot be created when a table does not have a primary key...

[alxp]

Hello everyone,

first of all - the nb db reverse engineering mechanism 'Entity Classes from Database' is really really great.

I encountered a huge problem: our legacy db has a lot of tables that do not have a primary key but an unique index. I am not allowed to create entities from those tables - the message is "Table xyz cannot be added because it does not have a primary key".

What can I do without altering the tables? I would simply like to specify which attributes to map as primary key. The other option would include netbeans to look at a table's index (nb shows the index for the table perfectly well) if no primary keys explicitely exist.

Any help or consolation available?

Thanks!
Alex