Primary key generation by insert trigger.

Question

I have a table and wish to automatically create a unique sequence number for use as the primary key.
In PL/SQL I do something like this:
create sequence personnel_seq;
create or replace trigger personnel_insert
before insert on personnel
for each row
declare seqNo NUMBER;
begin
select personnel_seq.NextVal into seqNo from dual;
:new.vc_personnel_reference := seqNo;
end personnel_insert;
column personnel.vc_personnel_reference is the primary key of table personnel, and not null.
What's the recommended way to do something similar in BC4J?
At present I'm using the trigger but BC4J doesn't know it exists, and insists on a value for vc_personnel_reference being provided. It also insists on adding the primary key to the ViewObject's attributes.
I can provide a dummy value in ViewObjectRowImpl.insertRow() but this seems cumbersome.
Is there a better way?
In fact can I do this kind of thing entirely in BC4J without the trigger?
Tony.

Answer 1

But be carefull with DBSequences.
There's a "problem" because the DBSequencs is a Domain and a "domained" field is not equal to any other field.
In that case if have an Entity with Id = 1 (where d comes out from a DbSequence) and You look for Id = n where n is a Number containing 1, You will not find Your record !!!
As 9.0.2.; I don't know in 9.0.3.
Bye
Tullio