All,

I am trying to concat first and last name into a property for presentation and figured I would create a class like in Hibernate2 using DoubleStringType and map like below. No such luck in 3.1. Anyone know of or can provide an example or another way to do this? Basically at a jsp, I want to be able to select lastnamefirstname in a collection that comes from last and first.

<property name="lastnamefirstname" type="nouveon.service.framework.util.StringDoubleType">
<column name="last" />
<column name="first" />
</property>

<component> ?
<composite-element> ?

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... nents.html


I dont use hibernate myself for this sort of "Presentation" thing, as thats not hibernates job, I use an extra custom method to my POJO that calls the two field getters and creates the concat result. This I believe to be a more correct way.


I understand the purpose of components is to allow recursive internal nesting of POJOs from one SQL bigger represenation. Leaving Hibernate a single named type to be able to use as the containing type. This is most useful with handling the value part of collections.