Is there a way to globally replace the type mapping for (for example) "string".

The database we use (DB2/390) returns padded strings for fixed column char data types (as it probably should). However, we're using fixed column width chars for efficiency, not because we want the padding. We'd rather drop off the extraneous trailing spaces.

While we can easily do this with a type clause:

* @hibernate.property column="COLOR" type="com.liberty.hibernate.DB2String"

this is somewhat invasive to the reading of the code - it would be everywhere. It would be nicer to be able to do

* @hibernate.property column="COLOR" type="string"

and set the DB2String setting in the global hibernate configuration files.

I'm using 2.1.

Don't think thats possible right now. Probably you can do some workaround by using ants filtertasks or something to replace a placeholder with the classname.

not a bad idea... I'll look into that.

Take a look at this old post, too: http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=927759&highlight=ant+filter

Very much appreciated - I didn't come across that one in my searches (before posting).