Hi all, yet another question about those mappings:

If direct subclass is not subclass itself, shall I look for subclasses further down hierarchy?

yes, certainly

and cut the search on first subclass found,
and look for his subclasses?

sounds good :)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 2.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-2.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="org.xdoclet.hibernate.subclass.Root" table="blurge">
<subclass discriminator-value="foo" name="org.xdoclet.hibernate.subclass.Foo">
</subclass>
<subclass discriminator-value="bar" name="org.xdoclet.hibernate.subclass.Bar">
<subclass discriminator-value="baz" name="org.xdoclet.hibernate.subclass.Baz">
<property name="a">
</property>
<property name="b">
</property>
</subclass>
<subclass discriminator-value="baz" name="org.xdoclet.hibernate.subclass.Bang">
<property name="a">
</property>
<property name="c">
</property>
</subclass>
</subclass>
<joined-subclass name="org.xdoclet.hibernate.subclass.Joined">
<key>
</key>
</joined-subclass>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>