How to store some of the entity's values in another table using hibernate?
- by nimcap
Hi guys, is there a simple way to persist some of the fields in another class and table using hibernate.
For example, I have a Person class with name, surname, email, address1, address2, city, country fields. I want my classes to be:
public class Person
{
private String name;
private String surname;
private String email;
private Address address;
// ..
}
public class Address
{
private Person person; // to whom this belongs
private String address1;
private String address2;
private String city;
private Address country;
// ..
}
and I want to store Address in another table. What is the best way to achieve this?
Edit: I am using annotations. It does not have to be the way I described, I am looking for best practices.
PS. If there is a way to make Address immutable (to use as a value object) that is even better, or maybe not because I thought everything from wrong perspective :)
