Hi,
I am new to Hibernate and I was wonder if it was possible to be able to set some meta data to a column of a table.

Lets say I have a table Shoe and it has a column shoe_lace, I want to be able to retrieve a "clean cut" name for that column such as 'Shoe Lace'.

Also I want to be able to go from 'Shoe Lace' to shoe_lace so it is possible to construct a query.

The purpose is becase we are creating a basic report that allows the user to select any column in the table (being the information that want returned from the query) but the problem is we need the column names pretty for the user.


Any help would be great.

Brandon

See what NamingStrategy interface can do for you.

That seems do give a standard for creating tables...abstracting out the configuration file...


I just want to be able to map a column name that already exists to a readable human format.


shoe_lace ==== Shoe Lace


Problem is that it is not good to have spaces in column names in a DB. Is that right? Do you know another workaround ?


Brandon