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Hibernate version: 2.1.7

Name and version of the database you are using: mysql 4.1.9

I'm trying to map an class that implements an interface without success.
I use xdoclet to generate the hbm files.
As I have read in chapter 8 of the documentation, what I'm trying to do is perfectly possible.
The problem is that the xdoclet that I put into my implementing class doesn't seem to be taken into account.

Here is how my interface looks :

/**
* @hibernate.class table="_i_event"
*/
public interface IEventVO {...}

And here is how I map my implementing class :

* @hibernate.joined-subclass table="_calendar_event"
* @hibernate.joined-subclass-key column="ID"
*
*/
public class CalendarEventVO implements IEventVO{...}

The resulting hbm file doesn't have the joined-subclass section as if my implementing class doesn't know it is 'extending' the interface.
Am I doing something wrong with xdoclet or did I not correctly understand the hibernate documentation and it is not possible to map implementing classes like subclasses of there interfaces?
Thanks,

Arthur Clement

I am new to Hibernate annotations. After we immplement the annotations in pojos, do we still need some tool to create the mapping files or the hibernate will directly work on the annotations? If we need tools to create mapping files, what kind of tools should we use? If use ant, what task? Is there any ant example?

Thanks.

Wade

The tool you need is xdoclet. Then after you have written your annotations you use the ant task hibernate (see http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net) to generate the mapping files.
The annotations do not replace the mapping files.

But this still doesn't tell me why my generated mapping files dont include the joined subclass when I try to map a interface and its implementors.
I'd really appreciate some clues here.

Arthur CLEMENT

Seems the issue comes from xdoclet.
I currently use version 1.2 and will try to upgrade to 2.0 which should fix the problem.

Thank CLEMENT for his response.

Wade