Hello,

First off, congrats on the new forum. It's much nicer than the old SF one.

I am working on mapping an existing DB to hibernate. There is a perfect candidate for a PersistentEnum, except it is a collection of Strings instead of ints.

How do people deal with this situation? By just creating a custom type, or just not bothering making it a enumeration? I'd love to take advantage of PersistentEnum if I can map these Strings in the column.

Any tips or hints would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks again!
Seth

Yes, for now, UserType is the answer.

I might accept the existing PersistentStringEnum patch. Still considering it. There is a discussion in JIRA about it.

OK, no prob. I'll check out the discussion because I'm curious as to what the discussion is all about.

In the meantime, I'll check out UserType.

Thanks for the quick and helpful response!