Dear All
I would like to ask if your experience can offer me some solution:
I have a legacy table with 3 INT columns for a date - Day Month and Year.

This is done because many records do not have a specific day or month when they occur.

My question is what would you suggest me to define as my class fields ?
3 fields with type int ? 3 with type date ? something else ?

Maybe someone has implemented something similar and can offer me a direction.

Thank you !

Elad

If you wanted to use an actual Date in your object model, you could accomplish this through Hibernate by using a UserType. The problem, though, would be the fact that it sounds like some of these "dates" are not really dates (if they only contain a year component).

In that case, I'd prebably map this as a component using a custom date representation.

Yes. Sometimes only the year will be there. It might happen.

I will look into the "Component" documantation to learn how I can use it.

Thanks for the quick response!

Elad