Java – annotate enummap with hibernate annotations

Just a simple question:

I want to use enummap in one of my entity classes

Is there a special way to annotate these? What happens if I don't explicitly annotate it?

More specifically, I want the key to be persisted as a string value rather than an int value

Cheers!

Solution

If the key of the map is enumeration, you can use the annotation @ mapkeyenumerated (string) to do this: http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/persistence/MapKeyEnumerated.html