Hibernate @Enumerated mapping

Question

Hibernate provides @Enumerated annotation which supports two types of Enum mapping either using ORDINAL or STRING. When w

Answer 1

Check these two articles - http://community.jboss.org/wiki/Java5EnumUserType and http://community.jboss.org/wiki/UserTypeforpersistingaTypesafeEnumerationwithaVARCHARcolumn

They solve the problem by a custom UserType.