I found a partial solution. If I do the following: 1.change the column from varchar to integer in the DB table. 2. Change the EnumType to ORDINAL @Column(name = "TYPEPAYMENT") | @Enumerated(EnumType.ORDINAL) | public TypePayment getTypePayment() { | return typePayment; | } Then I can get it to work. This works except there is a gap in the values. Allowed values are 1-7 and 9. Zero and Eight are excluded. But since the ordinal begins with zero there is not a way for me to handle this unless I put a dummy enumerated values in positions 0 and 8 in my enumeration. | public enum TypePayment | { | DUMMY0("dummy0"), | ANNUAL("Annual"), | SEMI("Semi-Annual ($4 Fee)"), | FOUR_PAY("4-Pay ($12 Fee)"), | QUARTERLY("Quarterly ($12 Fee)"), | TWELVE_PAY("12-Pay (No Fee)"), | MONTHLY("Monthly"), | DEFERRED("Deferred ($7 Fee)"), | DUMMY8("dummy8"), | OTHER("Other") | ; | The problem with the above solution is that I will have to exclude ordinals 0 and 8 in my application by makeing them not appear in drop down boxes, etc. I wish there was a way I could map and enumeration to numeric values using the EnumType(STRING). Any ideas are appreciated. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4059718#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...