How to persist a List of Strings in Hibernate?

Question

I seem to have problems with mapping a List in Hibernate. In our project there a class Card with contains a class Answer with Answer c

Answer 1

Use @ElementCollection:

@ElementCollection
@CollectionTable(name="Nicknames", joinColumns=@JoinColumn(name="user_id"))
@Column(name="nickname")
public List getNicknames() { ... } 

Source: 7.2.3. Collections of basic types and embeddable objects