Hi,

is it possible to map a class several times with different entity names using annotations?
In my case I have a second table holding the archived version of an entity.

Using XML-mapping files this would look like this:

<hibernate-mapping package="myPackage">
<class name="MyEntity" entity-name="MyEntity" table="MY_ENTITY">
<id name="id"/>
<property name="text"/>
<property name="version"/>
</class>

<class name="MyEntity" entity-name="MyEntityArchive" table="MY_ENTITY_ARCHIVE">
<id name="id"/>
<property name="text"/>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Please note that there is an additional property "version" in one of the mappings. This works fine for me when using XML-mappings. How can I achieve this using annotations?

Thank you in advance,
Thilo

I am not an annotations expert, but as far as I know you need to use XML files if you want to map a class multiple times.

Can I mix annotations and XML-mapping files?
The reason is I want to use hibernate-search. And this ist only possible using annotations...

Yes, you can mix it. Be sure to write metadata-complete="false", so that annotations are also read.