Is a good practice have ROWID as Primary Key in Oracle database and mapped as an Identifier in Hibernate 4.x?

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Issue

In a legacy database with tables without PK, is a good idea to use Oracle ROWID as PK?

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 6.x
  • Hibernate
    • 4.x

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