I'm using XDoclet to to mark up my classes for hibernate. I'm trying to persist a java.util.Colleection of java.lang.String. The documentation suggest that primitive types are automatically persisted.

However using the following code breaks and I cannot find any documentation or examples of how to do this.

If I change the class="java.lang.String" to one of my other persistable classes all works fine so how do you specify a java.lang.String?

/**
* @hibernate.list cascade="all-delete-orphan" name="viewedArticles" inverse="true"
*
* @hibernate.collection-key column="parent_id"
*
* @hibernate.collection-index column="viewedArticles_order"
*
* @hibernate.collection-one-to-many class="java.lang.String"
*/

The solution to the problem was:

/**
* @hibernate.list cascade="all-delete-orphan" name="viewedArticles" inverse="true"
*
* @hibernate.collection-key column="parent_id"
*
* @hibernate.collection-index column="viewedArticles_order"
*
* @hibernate.collection-element column="value" type="java.lang.String"
*/