Hi,
I want to take the "table per class" approach and am wondering if there's anyway to avoid the need to duplicate the common properties for every class (defined in a parent abstract class) definition in the hbm file. In our case we have a lastUpdateUser column in all of our tables, which won't be handled by a database trigger, because in this case the user is at the application level. I'm just trying to avoid this:

<class type="xxx.Product">
<property name="lastUpdatedBy">
...
</class>

<class type="xxx.Part">
<property name="lastUpdatedBy">
...
</class>

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Ben

How about?
- XDoclet annotations? http://xdoclet.sourceforge.net/xdoclet/ ... tTask.html

- Hibernate Java5 annotations; http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annot ... e/en/html/

- externanal XML entity definitions; http://xml.oreilly.com/news/learningxml_0101.html