I'm wondering if there is a way, using hibernate mapping (annotations preferred) to map a database field that is not persisted and not a property within the associated POJO. For my particular example it is the password field. I want it created by hibernates hbm2ddl feature but I want the business object to have absolutely no knowledge of the field. Additionally, I need to know if a field defined in this matter can be queried against using HQL.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks
Brian

I think it's possible to supply your own mechanism for getting/setting your entity properties. Two of the built-in ways are: using getter/setter pairs on the class, and using java reflection. I think you can define your own property accessor in the mapping file. Then write a property accessor that does nothing at all, effectively ignoring your field!