This seams like a trivial question - but I havent found a way around it yet - 100% me beeing stupid ... but anyhow ... Suppose I have

<property
name="description"
column="DESCRIPTION"
type="java.lang.String"
length="2000"
/>

And I have name of th eproperty in my hand - how do I get the info that this property has type "String" ?

Type hbmType = _hbmClassMetadata getPropertyType(propertyName);

is not helping me since that just gives me the Hibernate Type object which still doese not inform me of WHAT type it is.

The Hibernate type system seams so rich so I must have missed something here ... any examples somewhere how to use this correctly ?

Thanx
B-)

Ok - stupid me -

Type hbmType = _hbmClassMetadata getPropertyType(propertyName);
String typeName = hbmType.getName();

Will return "string" for java.lang.String, "timestamp" for java.sql.Timestamp

.. that will do it ...
B-)