Hi,

I'm trying to map Locale specific address and mobile number information. I'm having difficulty mapping the address and mobile, because address is a component for the user class and mobile is a component for the address class. I don't understand how to map a subclass within a component.

Assuming mapping this is possible, can it be mapped through xdoclet?

User.java - parent class
Subscriber.java - class containing component reference to Address interface. Subclass of User.java

Address.java - interface containing component reference to mobile.java. Mapped as component in the Subscriber class
AnAddress.java - abstract class
NLAddress.java - implementation class

Mobile.java - interface. Mapped as component in the Address interface
AMobile.java - abstract class
NLMobile.java - implementation class

Kind regards,

Marc

After finding some references to this issue in the forum I tried creating a CompositeUserType, but I ran into a snag. My implementation class is locale specific (NLAddress, UKAddress, NLMobile, UKMobile etc).

The country code is stored in the user table. For a CompositeUserType, the returned class would therefore be dependent on the information read from the database. Since it seemed I could probably not get this to work, I resolved to violate the architecture a little.

In stead on making AnAddress and AMobile abstract classes, I made them concrete. Then, I added class="package.AnAddress" and class="package.Amobile" to the relevant hibernate.component reference.

I'm wondering if there is a way to do this without violating architecture principles. Especially, since the documentation suggests that a fine grained object model is the aim, and this seems not an uncommon architecture ;-) I did see some reference in the forum to extending the component class to support inheritance, but judging from the Hibernate 3.0 codebase this was never followed up on. I would have expected more references to this issue on the forums, which only suggests that I might be an idiot. I probably missed the obvious. I'd love to be enlightened.

Kind regards,

Marc