hi

Can anybody tell me how to copy a property value into a column which is not mapped in a class. For example I have two columns and a property in a class, property1 is mapped to column1 and I also need column2 (which is not mapped) having same value that of property1.

Thanks in advance

Rajendra

I suggest custom SQL for update/insert :
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/reference/en/html/querysql.html#querysql-cud

Or triggers ...

Edit : actually custom SQL is not a solution for you since Hibernate won't expect two arguments for a single property. Implementing a UserType will do the trick but it is a bit overengineered IMO. Or use 2 properties A & B and a setter setAB method which duplicates the value.