I had a three classes (UserTypeA, UserTypeB, UserTypeC) that extended a User class and everything worked.

I was recently refactoring the code and created a "User" interface based on the old User class and converted the old User class to AbstractUser which now implements the "User" interface. UserTypeA, UserTypeB, UserTypeC now extend this class. My xdoclet hibernate mappings are in the AbstractUser class.

I can no longer save my classes when upcasting to the User interface because hibernate does not know about it. To make this work, do I have to move my xDoclet mappings into the "User" interface?


Regards,

Joshua

Ok,

I found this tid bit in the hibernate docs:



So, I moved my xdoclet tags to the "User" interface. I tried putting a
"subclass" tag in my AbstractUser class, but it is not getting picked up. I would expect to see xDoclet throw the subclass mappings in the User.hbm.xml file. No Dice.

Any suggestions?

Joshua

It doesn't matter what file they are in.
All that matters is that they are defined correctly.

You can place your <subclass> mappings in the same *.hbm.xml file or in separate files as the parent <class> mapping.