Hello.

Can anyone tell me if this is possible at all using Hibernate Annotations?

I have an entity that has same embeddable object used twice, and this embeddable has collection of value objects, say List<String> for simplicity.

public class MyEntity {

private CatRegistry domesticCatRegistry;
private CatRegistry foreignCatRegistry;

}

@Embeddable
public class CatRegistry {

@CollectionOfElements
private List<String> names;

....
}

How can I specify mapping of this entity to end up having cat names stored in DOMESTIC_CAT_REGISTRY_NAMES table, and other CatRegistry instance names to be in FOREIGN_CAT_REGISTRY_NAMES?

Table for collection of elements is usually specified using :

@CollectionOfElements
@JoinTable(name = "CAT_REGISTRY_NAMES")

but since I have 2 instances of CatRegistry, I would need somehow to override table name which I cannot see if it's possible?

-Vjeran

So, if I understood, you need different mapping for two instances of same class.
I don't think this is possible, it is not even logical, if you think it over.

OR mapping is based on class structures and relations between classes and class properties, not on instances and instance properties.

I don't think this is hibernate annotations problem, that kind of mapping isn't possible in Hibernate at all. Somebody correct me if I 'm wrong.

So, I think that only solution for situation you have is to define two different classes for each value object. Something like this:

I reformulated my question better, and it is gien in new post at: http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=968791