Hello-,
My scenario is like this. I have employee , contractor classes and contractor extends employee and the employee and contrator are mapper using <subclass> strategy(table-per-hierarchy).
May be this quesion is naive but still i wanted to ask can i read a row with discriminator 'contractor' and update it has an employee with discriminator 'employee'? In other words i wanted to change the contractor to employee/ but i don't want to create a new record but i wnat to chnage the existing record. can i do that?

Thanks

Karuna

Well if you can manage in Java to have your object suddenly changing classes, you should be able to get Hibernate to persist it properly, too.

You could probably trick it by updating the column directly using jdbc. I would imagine you would need to clear all cached references of the object to reload it. I haven't actually tried this though...

Joe