hi all,

i have a team.hbm.xml file which contains the mappings for my database table.

right now this file contains 3 properties as per my table.

but now my requirement is that when a player logs in, he can access these three properties but when my manager logs in, he has an access to additional columns of the same table.

is there any way that at runtime, i can add properties to my already existing team.hbm.xml file? Similar to something what "org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration" does to the hibernate configuration file.

any idea regarding the above issue.

I am not very sure if it is a good practice to change columns in that way (I feel there could be more elegant way of doing the same).
Having said the answer to your question is yes, it is possible.

From the Configuration class, you can get the entity using
PersistentClass persistentClass = configuration.getClassMapping(String entityName);
and then apply the method that you need on this class.

Once you are dont you will have to recreate the sessionfactory (remember sessionfactory is immutable)

Hope this helps.
Thanks