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There is no option to reverse engineer a view, instead of a table, in netbeans persistence.
That's a really needed feature. Looking forward to it. Views do not have IDs by default so Netbeans should allow generation of Views without the need of creating an ID in the entity class.
This old bug may not be relevant anymore. If you can still reproduce it in 8.2 development builds please reopen this issue. Thanks for your cooperation, NetBeans IDE 8.2 Release Boss