Where I cat find some example of custom user type definition?

I want to define a new type for mapping arbitrary lenght array of
float in "|" separated CLOB. Example:

1.32|3.22|2.12|....

Is this a good idea?
Other solutions?

Thanks.

Gianni Antini
Florence - ITALY

The other solution is to create an Entity that encapsulates your float and create a one-to-many relationship.

I you want usertype samples you can search in the test folder or you can grab caveatemptor from the hibernate site (you can find more complex examples)

Seb

Use the search function of the Hibernate site to find some examples:
http://www.hibernate.org/272.html
http://www.hibernate.org/265.html
http://www.hibernate.org/169.html

I don't know you exact use case, but I can also image to use a simple one-to-many relationship.



Best regards
Sven

I think that the use of one-to-many relationship is not
suitable for my context.

I have a matrix of float for every row of a table. The typical
dimension of the matrix is 90*14, but sometimes its 90*1.

So I suppose that the use of an internal codification of a CLOB
field is better for me.

Example (for more than one row):

1.21|2.11|3.21;1.33|2.12|2.43

this is 2*3 matrix.