Hi You all,

I would know if there's a way to define a custom Annotation i.e. "@UserDataEntity" (with RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) inside of an Entity class, like code below:

@UserDataEntity
@Entity
@Table(name = "XXXXX", catalog = "YYYYY")
.....

So, if there's an answer to my question, how to access this class attribute at runtime using reflection?

Scanning Entity metadata, through org.hibernate.Configuration (sessionFactoryBean.getConfiguration()) , I only get

org.hibernate.mapping.PersistentClass.

I'm using Hibernate 3.2.4.sp1 version

Thanks in advance.

Don't see what this has to do with Hibernate... You can add any annotations that you like to your classes. Hibernate doesn't care about it and you will of course not find any information about those annotations in the Hibernate metadata. Use the regular java reflection api instead. Eg. Class.getAnnotation(), etc.

Thank You very much,

I followed your suggest....

M.B.