I have the following setup:

A class called Address that contains a String (post code) and a List (of address lines).

On the database this is stored as a CHAR for the post code, and 5 separate address CHAR line fields (i.e addressLine1, addressLine2 etc).

The database design is nothing to do with me and unfortunately I am stuck with it.

Is there an easy way of mapping element 0 of the list to addressLine1, element 1 to addressLine2 etc.

Basically I am stuck with the database and the object model, so my only option is to do something clever in the mapping file.

Thanks.

Why don't you inroduce five getters/setters in your object?
public String getAddressLine1()
{
return mylist.get(0);
}

public void setAddressLine1(String addressLine1)
{
return mylist.set(0, addressLine1);
}

Just use a usertype, or even a <dynamic-component>

I've done that as a stop gap. I want to avoid whereever possible doing any changes to the exisiting model, as then I have to do a whole bunch of regression testing and so on.

Thanks anyway though.

Ta, I used a user type, based on DoubleStringType.

That's two user tpyes I've written in a week Gavin, maybe you'd like to incorporate my latest address one into the core Hibernate code ;-)