Hi all,

I'm new to Hibernate so please bear with me.

I have a column in a table called XX_METADATA which would hold value like: host=101.11.12.1;port=90;user=nikhil;password=chang3m3!

How can I map this VARCHAR column so that I get a properties object in my Java object? i.e. getXXMetadata() would return java.util.Properties instead of first getting it as String and then running it through some utility class to convert semi-colon separated String into Properties Object)

Thanks
nikhil

This sounds like the job for custom UserType. There is a short introduction in the docs: http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... pes-custom

You will still have to write the String <-> Properties conversion code, but at least it will be re-usable if you need it in more places.