sorry if this is a repost but searching for "point" even in combination with "data type" wasn't particularly useful.

i'm trying to figure out how to handle the POINT mySQL data type using hibernate. do i just create a custom "Point" java object? i'm not really sure what to do after this point though.

any help would be appreciated!

i just looked at the CompositeUserType interface and while it deceivingly offers what i'm looking for, i don't think this is it. i believe it assumes that the composite data type be on the Java side, not on the SQL side. so it wants multiple columns per one object whereas i need multiple Java objects (Floats in this case) per one column (POINT).

i also wonder if using java.awt.Point would work but i really doubt it.

any ideas?

in case anyone was wondering, hibernate spatial is the solution to this problem.