Hibernate version: 3.2.2

Mapping documents: Use of Annotations

Name of the database you are using: Oracle

Hi all,

I have a class that holds a status.
This Status has been implemented as an Enum class.

I wanted to map this as a "out of the box" String enumeration but after declaring the property with the following annotation :
@Enumerated(EnumType.STRING) : I get no string in my DB, I've tried to set the column to NVARCHAR2 but I just get one long string of characters as value...

What am i doing wrong here ?
In short, I just made a class A that extends from Enum and a class B that holds a property of type A mapped as stated above...

Or is there a smarter way to map Enumerations ?

Thx in advance.