Hi - just in-case you didn't find a solution to this...and are willing to just use the ordinals from the enum...you should be able to use: | public enum Status implements Serializable { | ACTIVE, | CANCELLED, | SIGNED; | } | Then: | @Column(name = "doc_status_cd") | @Enumerated(EnumType.ORDINAL) | public Status getStatus() { | return status; | } | Just make sure that your db field (doc_status_cd) in the above example is a numeric type of some sort. Regards, Todd View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4081782#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...