Internationalization with Hibernate

Question

I would like to have something like this be generated from hbm2ddl:

______________    ______________       _______________
|Language    |    |I18N        |           


        

Answer 1

I know my question is very old, but probably someone finds this and wants to know how to do that!

Well my final solution is creating embedded or composite elements within a map. Pretty easy, but you have to know how to do that. Here is an example on how to do that with annotations:

@Entity
@Table(name="A")
public class A implements Serializable{

    private Map<Locale, LocalizedA> localized = new HashMap<Locale, LocalizedA>();

    @ElementCollection
    @CollectionTable(name = "localized_a")
    @MapKeyJoinColumn(name = "field_name_for_locale")
    public Map<Locale, LocalizedA> getLocalized() {
        return this.localized;
    }

    public void setLocalized(Map<Locale, LocalizedA> localized) {
        this.localized = localized;
    }

}


@Embeddable
public class LocalizedA implements java.io.Serializable {

    @Column(name = "field_name_for_description")
    public String getDescription() {
        return this.description;
    }

    public void setDescription(String description) {
        this.description = description;
    }
}

I hope this will help someone, if you want an example for hbm.xml files just comment and i will add that.