How to define my own mapping between java to database Object

Question

Is these some Way to define my own mapping of hibernate to database Object?? For example, by default String maps to varchar(45), I want to change it to TEXT or just varchar(245) , what are the ways of achieving it ???

Answer 1

You can use either

<property name="description" type="string">
    <column name="description" length="100" />
</property>

in xml or

@Column(name="description", length=100)

annotation in class .

Alternatively, you can use @Type annotation - for more info see this or this .

You probably want to use @Type(type="text") .