I'm a bit confused after reading the available documentation for Hibernate; it seems that the only way to declare subclasses is using either subclass or joined-subclass elements inside root class declaration.. However, in the project I'm currently working on we have like 50-100 subclasses all extending a singe base class for business objects - this would result into extremely cumbersome base class declaration.

So I was wondering whether there exists some other way of defining inheritance - preferably by something like:



Thanks in advance.. :)[/code]

Max added this to Hibernate 2.1. Not sure if he documented it yet.

Ok.. Can you give me some pointers to where to look at - I think I could dig it out from sources?

Get the newest version and you should be able to just to add <subclass> and <joined-subclass> directly.

They should just have an extends="superclass-name" attribute.

And remember that you load the superclass mappings BEFORE the subclasses - otherwise hibernate will complain!