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Hibernate version:3.0.5

Hello!

What is the best (i.e. recommended) way to set defaults for Data Object properties?

I can think about the following two ways:

1. Specify defaults in he schema (DDL), map all objects with dynamic-insert="true", and refresh() the object after save() (or saveOrUpdate() )
2. Initialize properties with their default values programmatically (in class declaration or constructors)

#1 is ugly and requires querying after each insert
#2 results in the newly constructed data objects having properties set to values other then "unsaved-value". Will it break anything?

Is there a more elegant way to set property defaults?

Thank you,
Dmitri

Default values must be the same in application and in database. Default values to maintained in database to have valid model and you need to maintain default values in application to avoid reload. It is not a problem in my practice, JAVA language defaults make sence in most of cases and do not need to be maintained.

baliukas ,

thank you.

Dmitri