Hi,

I have come up with a situation where I have a class which does not contain any blank constructor and setter getter methods. Becuase it does not make sense to create an object of that class with blank constructor. It is a business specific requirement.

Now I have to persist that class in a table. Is there a way we can do this? Because Hibernate 2 says that we should have a blank constructor with setter and getter methods.

I believe the reason is that it is constructed that way with reflection by hibernate. Check out where this occurs in Hibernate's code to see if there is a way around it... Do you create it with a factory, or a constructor with multiple arguments? I would just subclass it and give it a default constructor... anyone correct me if there is a way.

Chris

sorry not really possible.

hibernate does not know all the values of the object when it instantiates a new object.

but your constructor does not need to be public, it can be package protected - and you can also instantiate your own objects based on an id via Interceptor.instantiate()