Hello and thanx for any help you can offer.
I am conducting an evaluation of Hibernate for possible inclusion in the
refactoring of an existing app. I am current using version 2.1.3.
My question concerns table column values and their transformation/conversion.
The current application queries the database and produces DTOs from the result set. The values of certain columns in a row in the result set are transformed/converted to different values in the DTO based on application context business rules.
My question is:
Does Hibernate have any facility for handling this type of conversion or do I continue to do this conversion after the object graph is returned from a Hibernate query?

Thanx again!

1. use attribute formula
2. use custom type
3. (my favorite), do the business rules on an unmapped getter