As I'm still strugling with my problem from thread posted previously I tried to change my strategy.

Now I'm trying to create an abstract CustomerName object which would then be implemented as PersonName and CompanyName. As I'm mapping my both customers to the same table (table per class hierarchy strategy) it would be nice to be able to map the names of the customers also as components to the same table.

So the question is that is it possible to map inherited components in any way with Hibernate?


-Jouni Hartikainen

I was looking in to this yesterday, and although I'm very new to Hibernate, I don't believe it's possible.

For now, I've created a many-to-one mapping from my owner class to owned class. Unfortunately, because many-to-one cannot use "all-delete-orphan" the program is leaving many, many useless objects behind in the DB. I cannot use a one-to-one mapping because the owned class cannot have a property referring to the owner class because of package restrictions.

Perhaps someone else can shed some light on better ways to do this. Or at least provide the hope that v3 will allow a subclassed component or unidirectional one-to-one.