Hi ppl,


I have tons of tables used to list types and status types... So if a have for example an Employee that could be a chief or a coordinator, in the database I have an id_situation foreign key that would tell me that, althought I don't want to map a specific Situation entity for the Employee having something like employee.situation.description, I would like that employee.situation would be of type String having situation.description as it's value... is there anyway to map this or this is done forward in classes implementation?

Cya!
Thiago Souza

If I get you right, you want a list containing strings? Just map it as a set using the <element> subtag. Look at the "Mapping Collections" Chapter of the Manual.

Hi!


No, it's not a list... it's just a simples string atribute, but the value would come from another table, like I said, i have Employee that has a Situation, in database, this just an id_situation foreing key from situation table, the situation table only have the description field (that tells the situation's description like "chief" ou "coordinator"), but I don't want to map this so I get employee.situation.description, want that that when I select an employee, that somewhere, employee is joined with situation and the employee.situation field would filled with his related situtation.description... got it? =)

Cya!
Thiago Souza

No this is not supported yet, one class and its properties have to be mapped to one table. Might be introduced in 2.2 with the <join> element.

ah ok, thanks!


Well, As I see you are there right now helping me out... please answear just a couple of questions =)

Is there any way to define an abstract class?
What if i don't set a table for a class?

Cya!

Just take a look at http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/reference/html/inheritance.html - you can handle an abstract class just like an interface.

Thanks!