"waynebaylor" wrote : So, I was wrong about the array. Hibernate does support arrays, but they're rarely used since Hibernate can't optimize them like Collections. | | As far as using enums, here are some links: | http://www.hibernate.org/270.html | http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=933393 | http://www.nabble.com/Java-5-Enums-Persistence-::-How-to-t3865408s2369.html | | The solution may be bigger than your problem :) Interesting. Thus far I haven't had a problem with (single) enums. I use the built in annotation. | @Enumerated(EnumType.ORDINAL) | public InspectionPriorityEnum getPriority() { | return priority; | } | It is collections of enums that are vexing me. Is the approach taken in those links something akin to the solution for mapping collections? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4053700#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...