The SimpleTypesGenerator can on demand generate Hibernate User Type for usage with Hibernate Mappings. For all types except the ValueObject.

The UserTypes? have the following characteristics:

• The types implement the UserType? interface as required by Hibernate
• The generated class name is the name of the enum class with UserType? appended.
• Can be used as type in the property definition in the HBM file. Please note that you need to define the UserType? as type to get a mapping to the associated generated type. For this to work buth classes must be available compiled on the classpath whenever the hbm is read.
• Sometimes it is to get the UserType? as Type to fullfill the Hibernate API eg. in SQLQuery.addScalar(...). Therefor each UserType? has a static method getType() that returns the Hibernate Type. A usage sample could be: query.addScalar("ACTOR_ID", UserIdUserType.getType()); (#67)