JPA map collection of Enums

Question

Is there a way in JPA to map a collection of Enums within the Entity class? Or the only solution is to wrap Enum with another domain class and use it to map the collection?<

Answer 1

The link in Andy's answer is a great starting point for mapping collections of "non-Entity" objects in JPA 2, but isn't quite complete when it comes to mapping enums. Here is what I came up with instead.

@Entity
public class Person {
    @ElementCollection(targetClass=InterestsEnum.class)
    @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING) // Possibly optional (I'm not sure) but defaults to ORDINAL.
    @CollectionTable(name="person_interest")
    @Column(name="interest") // Column name in person_interest
    Collection interests;
}