Is there a way to define some property in .hbm file that is not column is database and later use value of that property in join assoications.

e.g. Test.hmb
...
<property name="issueStatusId" type="integer">
<column name="ISSUE_STATUS_ID" not-null="true" />
</property>

<property name="languageId" type="integer"/>

...

<many-to-one name="translatedIssueStatus" property-ref="translatedNomItemJoin" >
<column name="ISSUE_STATUS_ID" />
<formula>languageId</formula>
</many-to-one>
...
languageId is just a property (not a column) that I need to set from java code, and than when I set languageId from code, I will call getTranslatedIssueStatus() that will use value of languageId to make a select from database.

This is not dificult question. Does anybody know?
Is it possible?

You cant have any property which is not present as a column in that table.....as Hibernate will validate all the mappings which you define in your hbm at the start up. If it finds any property w/o mapping to a column, it shall screame.

In short you can have anything extra in your POJO, but not in your HBM

Sudhir