What options do we have to use Hibernate 4.x in legacy databases that doesn't use primary keys?

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Issue

We have an environment that uses a legacy database that doesn't have primary keys. We can't change the database structure to add a new column to be the primary key.
Is there a workaround to use Hibernate in legacy databases?

Environment

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

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