You can create a custom FieldHandler which does basically nothing in the
setValue method and simply returns null in the getValue method.

Then simply specify the handler in the mapping file:

<field name="myVirtualField" type="java.lang.Object"
handler="com.acme.DoNothingHandler"/>

--Keith



> Sourabh wrote:
> 
> Suppose in my mapping file i mapped 4 different attributes for a
> class.But my java file has only 3 attributes in it  .one is missing.
> Now when i apply mapping to create a java object from this class , i
> get an exception - "....the method...accepting/returning object of
> type...was not found" .
> 
>                 How can we  create a java object which has less
> attributes than specified in the mapping file?
> 
> thanx in advance,
> 
> sourabh

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