Why would Hibernate ignore package-info.java?

Question

I\'m trying to use Hibernate @TypeDef annotation on a package level, exactly as it is described in the Hibernate documentation. I\'m using Hibernate 3.6 and

Answer 1

For Hibernate 4, you have to add

<mapping package="com.foo.bar.thepackage">

to your Hibernate config file.

Answer 2

I believe this is due to a bug in Spring, where it doesn't scan the annotations in package-info, but only those on classes annotated with @Entity, @Embeddable, or @MappedSuperclass. See https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-8589.

Answer 3

You probably need to add a

<resource package="com.foo.bar.thepackage"/>

to your Hibernate config file, or to call configuration.addPackage("com.foo.bar.thepackage").

Answer 4

If using JPA, using

<class>com.foo.bar.thepackage</class>

in the persistence.xml also should work.