Hi there,

I was wondering if someone was able to help me out with the following.
I have created a Hibernate mapping file that maps POJOs to both a database and an XML file.

Lets say xml looks like this:
<message>
<person>
<name>Blabla</name>
</person>
<text>djfh lksdjhlsdkjhasdf</text>
</message>

My db like this:
table: Messages
columns: id, person, message

My pojo like this:
public class Message implements java.io.Serializable {
private Long id;
private String name;
private String message;

...constructor, getter and setters....

And my mapping file as follows:
<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="nl.abz.fish.hibernate.Message" table="MESSAGES" node="MESSAGE">
<id name="id" type="java.lang.Long">
<column name="ID" length="10" />
<generator class="identity" />
</id>
<property name="name" type="java.lang.String">
<column name="NAME" length="10" node="name"/>
</property>
<property name="message" type="java.lang.String">
<column name="message" length="10" node="text" />
</property>

Now when I try to persist the xml it does not save the message text, so it seems that it cannot access this nested value.

Is there anyway I can map properties of a POJO to a nested Element??

Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry, I meant it does not save the persons name!
It can access the message text.

Anyone?

Why do you need a <name> nested in <person>? Can you use <person-name> instead?

If not you can define a Person Component. Create a class Person with a property called name and map this class as component to Message. Please read: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... -component