Hibernate Auto Increment ID

Do it as follows :-

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

You can use any arbitrary name instead of kaugen. It worked well, I could see below queries on console

Hibernate: select max(proj_id) from javaproj
Hibernate: insert into javaproj (AUTH_email, AUTH_firstName, AUTH_lastName, projname,         proj_id) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)

FYI

Using netbeans New Entity Classes from Database with a mysql *auto_increment* column, creates you an attribute with the following annotations:

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
@Basic(optional = false)
@Column(name = "id")
@NotNull
private Integer id;

This was getting me the same an error saying the column must not be null, so i simply removed the @NotNull anotation leaving the attribute null, and it works!

Hibernate defines five types of identifier generation strategies:

AUTO - either identity column, sequence or table depending on the underlying DB

TABLE - table holding the id

IDENTITY - identity column

SEQUENCE - sequence

identity copy – the identity is copied from another entity

Example using Table

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.TABLE , generator="employee_generator")
@TableGenerator(name="employee_generator", 
                table="pk_table", 
                pkColumnName="name", 
                valueColumnName="value",                            
                allocationSize=100) 
@Column(name="employee_id")
private Long employeeId;

for more details, check the link.

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy=GenerationType.AUTO)
private int id;

and you leave it null (0) when persisting. (null if you use the Integer / Long wrappers)

In some cases the AUTO strategy is resolved to SEQUENCE rathen than to IDENTITY or TABLE, so you might want to manually set it to IDENTITY or TABLE (depending on the underlying database).

It seems SEQUENCE + specifying the sequence name worked for you.