Implementing Domain-Driven Design

ORM and Enum-as-State Objects

If you find enums an effective modeling choice for Standard Types and/or State objects, you will need the means to persist them. With Hibernate, Java enums require a specialized persistence technique. Unfortunately to date, the Hibernate development community does not support enums as an out-of-the-box property type. Therefore, to persist enums in our model we have to create a Hibernate custom user type.

Recall that each GroupMember has a GroupMemberType:

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public final class GroupMember extends IdentifiedValueObject  {     private String name;     private TenantId tenantId;     private GroupMemberType type;     public GroupMember(             TenantId aTenantId,             String aName, ...