Hello,

I'm trying to write a data structure bean to represent some dynamic data not known at compile time. E.g. a user object with some fixed attributes (login, name, ...) and a collection of key/value pairs set a run time. I would like to use this dynamic bean in Seam/Hibernate.

I came up with the following design (Java pseudo code):

@Entity

class BeanProperty {

     String propName;

     String propValue;

}



@Entity

class BeanUser {

     String login;

     String name;


     @OneToMany

         @MapKey(propName)

     Map<String, BeanProperty> propertiesMap;

}

Since I'm totally new to this topic I'm not sure wheter this is the way to go. Unfortunatly I could not find any examples about this. So I would be very happy if you could give me some hints and also some example code. Also I would be very happy about some predefined SQL statments to include in the import.sql file in order to get the database filled with some data.

Thanks a lot, Biggles