Exclude a specific table from being created by hibernate?

Question

I have an @Entity which is mapped to a view, here is how it looks

import org.hibernate.annotations.Immutable;
import javax.persistence.*;

@Table(name = "user_earning")
@Entity
@Immutable
public class UserFlightEarning {
    @Id public Long userId;
    public Long flightId;
    @Column(name = "flight_seq") public Long flightSequence;
}

This works fine, I can retrieve records from the view using the dao. However I noticed in the logs that Hibernate is actually trying to create the table but failing because it already exists.

2015-11-12 21:56:34.841 ERROR 4204 --- [ost-startStop-1] org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport : HHH000389: Unsuccessful: create table user_profile (user_id bigint not null, avg_airtime integer, avg_fuel_points integer, avg_miles integer, email varchar(255), first_name varchar(255), flights_count integer, furthest_flight integer, last_name varchar(255), longest_flight integer, most_visited_city varchar(255), tier_end integer, tier_start integer, primary key (user_id)) 2015-11-12 21:56:34.841 ERROR 4204 --- [ost-startStop-1] org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaExport : Table 'user_profile' already exists

Can I configure hibernate so it skips the creation of such entities? I thought the @Immutable annotation tells Hibernate to skip the creation but it seems this annotation is only to prevent crud operations on the table.

Answer 1

The @Subselect annotation is the only annotation in Hibernate that prevents the creation of the corresponding table for an @Entity:

@Entity
@Subselect("select * from user_earning")
public class UserFlightEarning {

    @Id 
    public Long userId;

    public Long flightId;

    @Column(name = "flight_seq") 
    public Long flightSequence;
}