Is there anyway in hibernate to process a column of comma delimited FKs in the same manner as if there were a many-to-many linkage table? That is, ideally I could reuse some old table structures that heavily use comma delimited lists instead of creating new join tables everywhere.

Oversimplified Example:




Sample data:



Thanks,
Thad

Yes, you can use a custom type.

Note that this is an incredibly evil database schema, you should change it to something sane.