naming conventions

nouns in all caps will be treated as ordinary words, including abbreviations and is subject to camel caps rules

e.g.
UUID => Uuid
DAO => Dao


Dao should also follow these rules, even in
* ClassNamesDao
* fieldNameDao
* bean id="nameDao"

- the word "name" is to be treated as a suffix, and not as a separate word
-- filename, username, firstname, lastname

hibernate can't target an unmapped class

-make sure the annotation is javax.persistence.Entity, and not org.hibernate.annotations.Entity. The former makes the entity detectable. The latter is just an addition.

-if you are manually listing your entities (in persistence.xml, in hibernate.cfg.xml, or when configuring your session factory), then make sure you have also listed the ScopeTopic entity

-use packagesToScan in sessionFactory rather than annotatedPackages and pass all the packages with entities

-make sure you don't have multiple ScopeTopic classes in different packages, and you've imported the wrong one.