Java Hibernate Cookbook

Working with the table per concrete class strategy of inheritance

This is the easiest strategy among all. In this strategy, hibernate creates a different table for each subclass and parent class. The disadvantage of this approach is that duplicate columns are created in the subclass table.

Getting ready

Consider a new table structure as shown in the following table:

Creating the classes

Update the following code in their respective files:

Source file: Employee.java

@Entity @Table(name="employee") @Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS) public class Employee { @Id @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.TABLE) @Column(name="id") private ...