Hey guys! I want to know if there are any possibilities to work with historical data in hibernate? For example, I have an entity Credit.

class Credit{

String name;
}

Thus in database I have a corresponding table lets say credit that contains information about credits.

I want to tell hibernate that my entity Credit is actually historical entity and I need another table in database like credit_history that will be containing information about credit plus for example some additional data. In the way I see it, my entity should look like this:

@HistoryTable("credit_history")
class Credit {

String name;

@Historical
Date date;

}

Notice that I need just one entity for two different tables. First table just contains information about credit and the other one these information plus data.
Are there any possibilities I can do something like that?

Simpler Task. How can I force Hibernate to create one more table for me? Lets say I have class User which has annotation @Entity, so hibernate will create table in database for that entity. Can I do something like

createOneMoreTable("user_history", User.class) and hibernate creates one more table according already annotated class User. It will be the same table but with different name.

For entity versioning (keeping historical information) check out http://www.jboss.org/envers