Hi anyone!

I consider this a common problem, yet i could not find any answers so far.

I want to map a class which has a member that is declared as an association to a 3rd party interface:



That interface is not mapped but my custom implementations of that interface are. I know that this is somehow dangerous because that member could possibly reference an unmapped implementation. But this is how the design is, independent from any persistence considerations.

The only solution I could find so far is using 'any' but the documentation of the @Any-Annotation somehow discourages the usage. Is there a common approach to such kind of problems?

Thanks a lot in advance!