ModelMapper: mapping abstract classes during runtime

Question

I am using ModelMapper Framework (http://modelmapper.org/) for mapping objects in Java. I have encountered a problem while mapping concrete classes (DTO to Entites) containi

Answer 1

I couldn't solve this problem with ModelMapper. Thus, I switched over to Dozer.
Dozer is a great tool for object mapping in Java. And it is really easy to use as well. You can define the corresponding mapping classes in a XML-file.

Here's a link to the documentation. http://dozer.sourceforge.net/documentation/mappings.html

My Solution with Spring
dozer-bean.xml

        
            
                META-INF/mapping/dozer-config.xml
            
        

dozer-config.xml

            com.packagename.dto.QuestionDTO
            com.packagename.entities.core.Question


        com.packagename.dto.CriteriaDTO
        com.packagename.entities.core.Criteria