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For consistency with annotations ordinal mapping of enums is the default. For hbm.xml binding of enums that you wish to handle as named you'd have to specify useNamed=true. E.g.:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-mapping>
	<class name=“my.class.TransportConfig" table="transportconfig">
		<id name="identifier" type="java.lang.String" access="field">
			<column name="transport_id" sql-type="varchar(191)"/>
			<generator class="assigned" />
		</id>
		<property name="type" access="field" not-null="true">
			<column name="type" sql-type="varchar(50)"/>
			<type name="org.hibernate.type.EnumType">
				<param name="enumClass">my.class.TransportConfig$Type</param>
				<param name="useNamed">true</param>
			</type>
		</property>
	</class>
</hibernate-mapping>