Hi
I have a interesting problem. We use XML based metada(Proprietary) for our software and instead of generating classes for each object, we have a generic object that gets it's attributes from this metadata and they sit in a HashMap as name, value pairs. We have methods like getAttributeValue(String attributeName) to return value.
Now we want to persist this objects in database as any regular object can be done using hibernate(like each attribute in the object mapped to a column in table). These objects don't confirm to any java bean standards and only way to save is by getting the HashMap out of each object and saving its contents as name, value pairs(like regular bean object).
Can I use Hibernate to save these objects in database?

Thanks
Rav

Hi,

Do you mean that your generic object has an attibut which type is an HashMap is wich all the "real" attributes are?

Take a look at dynamic-component, it is not very well documented, but basically works like a normal component, only it is represented as a hashmap. This in combination with maybe a custom PropertyAccessor should allow you to solve your problem.

simply implement net.sf.hibernate.property.PropertyAccessor

Hi
Thanks for a prompt reply. I will use it and hopefully it will work smoothly.

Rav