ORM and Enum-as-State Objects
If you find enums an effective modeling choice for Standard Types and/or State objects, you will need the means to persist them. With Hibernate, Java enums require a specialized persistence technique. Unfortunately to date, the Hibernate development community does not support enums as an out-of-the-box property type. Therefore, to persist enums in our model we have to create a Hibernate custom user type.
Recall that each GroupMember
has a GroupMemberType
:
public final class GroupMember extends IdentifiedValueObject { private String name; private TenantId tenantId; private GroupMemberType type; public GroupMember( TenantId aTenantId, String aName, ...
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