Yes, I'll confess up front that I'm a new user, but I have been trying to do my part reading up. I apologize in advance for my ignorance.

I tried to access the XDoclet tutorial at http://www.meagle.com:8080/hibernate.jsp but it wasn't found. There may be a better way of going about this, and any advice would be appreciated.

I have a class that has several fields that can are variable upon instantiation, and then remain fixed thereafter. The same class also has a small number of fields that continue to change after instantiation.

e.g. (only an example - not the real application)

Class: Customer

Name: fixed
Address: fixed
Telephone: fixed
Balance: fluctuating

I want to record the state of the class through time, but I don't want to continually persist fields like Name Address and Telephone. I only need to record them once. Balance, on the other hand needs to be continually tracked. Is there a way to split the persistence into two different tables (i.e. a fixed table and a dynamic table)?

I have pre-existing POJOs and am trying to generate the XML using XDoclet for Hibernate. Looking at example 9.5.1 from Hibernate in action:



Is it only possible to map to one table? If yes, would the best solution be to extract the changing data to a new class, or is there a better one? If no, I must be missing the section on how to define different types of saves.

Thank you and again, my apologies for what is most likely basic material.

Answering my own question - it looks like the Beta release of the Hibernate Annotations provides a @SecondaryTables flag which accomplishes exactly what I was trying to describe (p.18 of the Beta2 documentation). I'm not sure if XDoclet has a similar capability or not, but the new annotations look like the way to go.