There is a WIKI page "Java 5 EnumUserType" here: http://www.hibernate.org/272.html that has a couple different implementations of a reusable user type for java 5 enums. However, there are several posts beneath them that tweak it in one way or another. I was just wondering if there is a "final" version - or if that's not possible - a "blessed by the hibernate team" version that can be posted, or better yet, added to hibernate3.jar...

There is EnumType in annotations project

Thanks, snpesnpe. That is helpful (and I gave you a forum credit).

Does anyone happen to know if the code in hibernate-annotations.jar is going to get brought back into hibernate3.jar? Maybe will 3.1 be when hibernate3.jar, hibernate-annotations.jar (and maybe even hibernate-entitymanager.jar) all get merged?

Thanks again.
David

I don't know for merge, but you can use it togetther - only add all 3 jars in classpath and and choose corect versions (choose last for all 3)

Wow, thanks for the quick reply (again).

I'm happily using Spring 1.2.5 with Hibernate 3.1rc2, albeit with hbm.xml mapping files. Looks like this version of Spring supports Hibernate annotations, so I'm going to give that a try (I'd love to dump the hbm.xml files). However, I think I'll hold off on the ejb3 entity manager stuff 'cause I don't really see a need for it. Spring hides my DAOs behind an interface anyway, so my app already doesn't even know I'm using Hibernate, and it wouldn't know I'm using ejb3 either - so why have the middle man (ejb3?). Just a rhetorical question - no need to answer. :)

ejb3 is standard and it's good always - many idea in ejb3 are from hibernate
hibernate have extended features, too