Hibernate version:2.1

Mapping documents:
<property name="docType" column="doc_type" type="character" />


When you map a property using the built-in Hibernate types, how does hbm2java decide whether to make the type primitive (char) or the wrapper object (Character). In the instance above, that property should be nullable -- by default, but it always generates a field with the type char, which can't be null. Am I missing something?

Look at the implementation/API of the Hibernate types (eg, UserTypes) then you will see they supply the Java type mapping. hbm2java is querying that method.