Hibernate Error - Caused by: org.hibernate.DuplicateMappingException: duplicate import:

In hibernate, You cannot have two classes with the same name in the same or different packages else you will get an error at runtime like


"Caused by: org.hibernate.DuplicateMappingException: duplicate import: ....(try using auto-import="false")"


I have resolved this issue by adding property name on the Entity annotation.
Let us suppose I have Meta class in two different packages "com.database.user" and "com.database.group', you can resolve it as :

package com.database.user

@Entity(name= "com.database.user")

@Table(name="USER_META")

public class Meta

package com.database.group

@Entity(name= "com.database.group")

@Table(name="GROUP_META")

public class Meta

There must be some other ways too to resolve this issue, So please feel free to share it :)