Chapter 5. Inheritance and custom types
We deliberately didn't talk much about inheritance mapping so far. Mapping a hierarchy of classes to tables can be a complex issue, and we'll present various strategies in this chapter. You'll learn which strategy to choose in a particular scenario.
The Hibernate type system, with all its built-in converters and transformers for Java value-typed properties to SQL datatypes, is the second big topic we discuss in this chapter.
Let's start with the mapping of entity inheritance.
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