Hi all,

How can I reverse engineer my tables so the members are protected instead of private? This must be a common thing: we often regenerate our tables, and I have to manually add any derived fields, which is very time consuming. I'd prefer to extend from the generated model and put my derived fields there, so I can easily replace old generated models with new ones without having to merge derived and nonderived fields every time.

Example: generated Customer model has customerId, customerNameE (english), and customerNameF (french). My derived field is customerName, so I can do

public String getCustomerName() {
return (this.getLocale().equals(LocaleIF.LOCALE_EN_CA) ? getCustomerNameE() :getCustomerName());
}

and reference customerName in my .jsp.

If I simply extend from generated model (public class LocalizedCustomer extends Customer) I don't have access to the private members of the class anymore.

Any help gratefully appreciated.

Hibernate version: 3.2.6GA

Name and version of the database you are using: Oracle 10g

To follow up on this more generally, how do developers manage this sort of situation, where generated POJOs need to be merged with derived\hand coded fields and methods?

Anyone?...:-)