Hi,

I had a question in mind...

suppose my entire framework is working and using an classes by name SuperA , SuperB, SuperC ... SuperZ (assume they have on 'id' key field, there is no hibernate mapping file for these classes).


Now I add a jar '1.jar' which extends Super[A-Z] and has class names like SubA1 , SubB1 , SubC1 ... SubZ1. These classes have hbm files with table mapping into some db. These can have its own set of attributes.

But suppose now I create only more child hierarchy and try to replace '1.jar' with '2.jar' which extends Super[A-Z] and has class names like SubA2 , SubB2, SubC2 ... SubZ2. These classes also have their hbm files and map to some table in some db.


Now what I am expecting is ...
sample code :




Now depending on what implementation is returned by getA() ... I would want hibernate to insert 'implementation' object into its respective table.

Is that possible .. ??

Yes. It's impossible not to do that, as Hibernate uses mappings based on the object's class, not the variable's type. That is, hibernate completely ignores that fact that implementation is treated as a SuperA by your code, it uses only implementation.getClass() to determine what mapping to use.