[jboss-user] [EJB 3.0] - Customizing the persistence of an embedded object

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Simple question: I have a class that uses an embedded object that's not an entity, like this:


  | @Entity
  | public class LogMessage {
  |    private java.util.logging.Level level;
  | }
  | 

Right now, the way that handles it is it creates a bytea column to store the level.  Of course that's not what I want.  What would be ideal would be to somehow annotate it so I could define my own persistence for that particular field.  In this case, I would want to persist it as either an integer or a string perhaps.  I know in Hibernate it wasn't a big deal to write my own custom type with its own storage approach but I can't find anything like that in EJB3.  Any ideas?

Of course the other thing i can do is to just write up my own enum and not even use the java.util.logging.Level class, but hey, that class is there and does exactly what I want so it would be ideal to use it.

Thanks for any ideas on this


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