I am currently doing some R&D on Hibernate and intend to use it. But my database table schema is very old and cannot be changed. It's an Informix one and I am using Hibernate 2.1.3.
I have to insert data into one table which would be coming from many unrelated objects which may or may not be composite. Composition has been extensively used in the object model.
How would the configuration look like for a table which stores data coming from multiple objects ??


Please advise,
flexian

like a chram.
See <component in documentation

The component section in the Hibernate documentation does not say anything about mapping "unrelated" classes. In our system here's the scenario.

There is one table table1 which stores data from two absolutely unrelated objects obj1 & obj2.
obj1 holds data such as a newly created userid and username while obj2 holds the users online application data.
table1 stores data from both these objects.

How do I address this scenario ??
Again, change to object model and db schema is not possible.

Please advise,
flexian

It sounds like subclass is the way to go. I assume that you can discriminate between obj1 and obj2 based on values in the record.