Hiya.

I understand from the docs that collections of collections aren't supported in Hibernate. Is there a common design pattern that Hibernate users employ for working around this?

Specifically, I'm in need of persisting a Map where the keys are strings but the values are Maps. (An even better world would have me persisting a Map with string keys but values that could be Maps or strings, but I'm not holding my breath.) Any thoughts?

Thanks!
- Ert Dredge

There is no way to work around but to use proper classes inside your collections.