Inheritance and Relationships

[justinb]

Hi,

It's great to be able to try this out... thanks alot.

I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong:
I have three entities,

- Contact
- Employee (extends Contact)
- Branch (extends Contact)

I used the JOINED inheritance type for this structure. And it compiles and deploys great, just like that. But then, I take it one step further and have Branch contain many Employees, this doesn't work (I get an org.hibernate.MappingException).

I've found that if I remove all inheritance from Contact then it deploys great again.

I should also mention that it is only the @OneToMany in Branch that causes the problem, the @ManyToOne in Employee is fine in all cases (even if I completely remove the relationship on Branch's side).

So I have to choose between
a) having this one-to-many relationship between Branch and Employee
or
b) having Branch and Employee inherit from Contact.

It would be really nice to have both.

Thanks,
Regards

[bill.burke]

This looks like a bug and not a "feature" ;-)


It would speed up the bug fix greatly if you could provide test code for this to me: [e-mail]

Thanks,

Bill