Joined subclass - insert failing

[diablo341]

I've got a base class, Person, and a joined subclass, Recruiter.
My facelet has input fields that are mapped to the Recruiter subclass.
When I call the create method on the stateful session bean, I get a JDBC error. Why is it complaining about the hireDate field? It's in my form.
Here are some code snippets. Anyone see the problem?

Thanks,
John

@Entity
@Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.JOINED)
@Name("person")
@Scope(EVENT)
@Table(name="person")
public class Person implements Serializable {
 private long id;
 private String firstname;
 private String middlename;
 private String lastname;
 private String address;
 private String socialSecurityNum;
 private String emailWork;
 private String emailPersonal;
 private String phoneWork;
 private String phoneWorkExtension;
 private String phoneHome;
 private String phoneCell;
 private String jobTitle;

 public Person() {}

 @Id(generate=GeneratorType.AUTO)
 public long getId() {
 return id;
 }

 public void setId(long id) {
 this.id = id;
 }

@Entity
@Name("recruiter")
@Scope(EVENT)
@Table(name="recruiter")
public class Recruiter extends Person implements Serializable {
 private java.util.Date hireDate;
 private int recruiterType;
 private int terminatedFlag;
 private java.util.Date terminatedDate;
 private int commissionType;
 private double amount;
 private boolean amountDueFromCommissions;

 @NotNull
 public java.util.Date getHireDate() {
 return hireDate;
 }

 public void setHireDate(java.util.Date hireDate) {
 this.hireDate = hireDate;
 }

<div class="label"><h:outputLabel for="firstname">First name:</h:outputLabel></div>
<div class="input"><h:inputText id="firstname" value="#{recruiter.firstname}"/><br/><span class="errors"><h:message for="firstname" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="label"><h:outputLabel for="lastname">Last Name:</h:outputLabel></div>
<div class="input"><h:inputText id="lastname" value="#{recruiter.lastname}" /><br/><span class="errors"><h:message for="lastname" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="label"><h:outputLabel for="socialSecurityNum">SSN:</h:outputLabel></div>
<div class="input"><h:inputText id="socialSecurityNum" value="#{recruiter.socialSecurityNum}" /><br/><span class="errors"><h:message for="socialSecurityNum" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="label"><h:outputLabel for="address">Address:</h:outputLabel></div>
<div class="input"><h:inputText id="address" value="#{recruiter.address}" /><br/><span class="errors"><h:message for="address" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="label"><h:outputLabel for="hireDate">Hire date:</h:outputLabel></div>
<div class="input"><h:inputText id="hireDate" value="#{recruiter.hireDate}"><f:convertDateTime type="date"/></h:inputText><br/><span class="errors"><h:message for="hireDate" /></span></div>
</div>
<div class="entry errors"><h:messages globalOnly="true" /></div>
<div class="label"> </div>
<div class="input"><h:commandButton value="Create" action="#{createRecruiter.createRecruiter}" class="button"/> 
<h:commandButton value="Cancel" action="login" class="button"/>
</div>

12:16:29,112 INFO [STDOUT] Hibernate: insert into person (address, lastname, socialSecurityNum, firstname, middlename, emailPersonal, emailWork, jobTitle, phoneCell, phoneHome, phoneWork, phoneWorkExtension) values (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
12:16:29,132 WARN [JDBCExceptionReporter] SQL Error: 1364, SQLState: HY000
12:16:29,132 ERROR [JDBCExceptionReporter] Field 'hireDate' doesn't have a default value
12:16:29,142 ERROR [[Faces Servlet]] Servlet.service() for servlet Faces Servlet threw exception

[diablo341]

Here is the stateful session bean:

@Stateful
@Scope(EVENT)
@Name("createRecruiter")
@Interceptor(SeamInterceptor.class)
public class CreateRecruiterAction implements CreateRecruiter {

 private static final Logger log = Logger.getLogger(CreateRecruiter.class);

 @In @Valid
 private Recruiter recruiter;

 @PersistenceContext
 private EntityManager em;

 @In
 private FacesContext facesContext;

 @IfInvalid(outcome=REDISPLAY)
 public String createRecruiter() {
 log.info("creating recruiter");
 List existing = em.createQuery("select socialSecurityNum from Person where socialSecurityNum=:socialSecurityNum")
 .setParameter("socialSecurityNum", recruiter.getSocialSecurityNum())
 .getResultList();
 if (existing.size()==0) {
 em.persist(recruiter);
 em.flush();
 return "login";
 } else {
 //String ssno = existing.get(0);
 facesContext.addMessage(null, new FacesMessage("recruiter already exists"));
 return null;
 }
 }

 @Destroy @Remove
 public void destroy() {
 log.info("destroyed");
 }
}

[diablo341]

Another update. I logged the value of hireDate before the insert and it does have the correct input value. Is there something wrong with how I called the persist method? Anyone done this before?

Thanks,
John

[diablo341]

Anyone able to provide some input? I'm a newbie and I'm trying to get started. Please let me know if I can explain anything further.

http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=79644

I appreciate it.

Thanks,
John

[diablo341]

sorry, that was supposed to be a new topic.