Hi.
In absence of answers at Hibernate forums, and everywhere else, I had to
ask here since this community is so desired to help anyone.
Hibernate praises itself for letting developer design domain model in fine
grained way, using all typical OO ways, such as poymorphism etc... and then
I start using it, and want to map value object hierarchy, and suddenly - it
seems impossible!
Typical example of mapping value object would be with <component>
declaration inside Hibernate's hbm.xml for cases such as User entity
containing Address:
Address address = new Address();
user.setAddress(address);
Everything's fine, and Address maps itself into columns inside user record
in db.
But, what if Address is interface, and I have various implementations of it
:
Address address = new CustomAddressImpl();
user.setAddress(address);
Soooo typical, and Hibernate cannot do it! Everywhere is only described how
to map hierarchy of entities, and not value objects.
Suggestions? (somehow, I don't want to convert my Address value object into
entity, just so Hibernate would be able to map it) I cannot believe
Hibernate users didn't stumble upon this already ...
-Vjeran
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
