How do you map a “Map” in hibernate using annotations?

Question

Using annotations how do you map a field in an entity which is a \"Map\" (Hashtable) of String to a given object? The object is annotated and instances of it are already s

Answer 1

You should probably use a UserType or UserCollectionType. Or, you can use a custom tupleizer.

see hibernate core documentation for the concepts and hibernate annotations documentation for the equivalent annotation approach.

Let me know if that isn't what you are asking for.