Does anybody know how to map a state pattern.
Something like an Order has a State. The different state the order can have is modeled using state pattern.

Are you thinking something simple along the lines of storing an enum that contains the current state of the order? If so, you could define a column of type int in the database and then map to an enum like this:



If you have something more complicated in mind, then it might help to first talk about how you envision storing the data. Figuring out the mappings comes secondary to first understanding how you want to interact, and then store, the data.

No that is not what i want. The problem is more explained in the topic below. What i want to achive is inheritance in component.


http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=953687

Why don't you just use a many-to-one to your state object?

or.. maybe I'm thinking about strategy pattern now ;-)

Post your code and then we'll work out the mappings together.

It's one thing to say you want to use such and such pattern, it's quite another to actually show how you're planning to use it.