<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
        "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
        "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>

    <class name="Employee" table="employees">
        <id name="id" column="employee_id" type="string" length="8">
		<generator class="assigned"/>
	</id>         
        <property name="firstName" column="first_name" type="string" length="30"/>
        <property name="lastName" column="last_name" type="string" length="30"/>
        <property name="startDate" column="start_date" type="date"/>
    </class>

</hibernate-mapping>