Can Hibernate use logical name for entity property different from field name?

Question

Let's say, there's a Hibernate entity configured with field access by means of annotations. I would like to map a Java class field _name so that its logical name for Hibernate be name, for instance, when referred from HQL queries. I need this mostly for collections.

Anticipating improper suggestions: switching access type to "property" is not possible; the task has nothing to do with the name of the physical column.

Answer 1

Based on my understanding of your question - You could define the entity like this. This will generate a hibernate table named (NewName_ABC with a column name)

@Entity
@Table(name = "NewName_ABC")
public class ABC
{
.
@Column(name = "name")
private string _name;
.
.
}

parallely can use liquibase to create the table.

Answer 2

Do you mean like this?

@Column(name = "name")
private string _name;