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Oracle 9i


I have a discriminator value that persisted objects use to distinguish themselves in a Table per class Hierarchy pattern. It would be useful to retrieve this value from the database instead of creating a whole other column to store the same value for display purposes.

Is there a way to access the value somehow?

In 2.X I had one class with a property which used the discriminator column. I assume you can still do that in 3.X.. just add it to your hbm.xml file and point it at the same column.