JBoss AS 4.2.1 I'm trying to persist an enum as a string (e.g. "OBJECT_CREATE" rather than its ordinal 0): public enum AuditEvent { | OBJECT_CREATE,OBJECT_UPDATE,OBJECT_REMOVE,FIELD_CHANGE, | } My Entity property is marked with @Enumerated to set the STRING converstion: @Column(name = "audit_event") | @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING) | public AuditEvent getEvent() {... The generated table is (correctly) a VARCHAR (without the STRING annotation, it is an int), but the value written to the table is still the ordinal value (the string '0' rather than the string 'OBJECT_CREATE'). Is this a bug in JBoss 4.2.1, or a misunderstanding of the spec on my part? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4073384#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...