Hi

I try to persist a Collection which contains different types of classes.

E.g.. Products: Books, Lighters, Sausages, ...

What should I use?

-The <any> tag.
-The <subclass> or <joined-subclass>.

Some example hibernate-mapping-files?

Thanx
montsie

It depends on how your data is modeled. If Books, lighters, sausages, etc. are all in one table (product) then you'd probably want a subclass. You would need a discriminator column in the table to tell hibernate which type of class to construct when loading them. The documentation has some examples of hibernate mappings.

If your items have a common database table, but additional information in a different table for each class then you should use a joined-subclass I think.

Good luck!
Jenica