How to persist a List of Strings in Hibernate?

Question

I seem to have problems with mapping a List in Hibernate. In our project there a class Card with contains a class Answer with Answer containing a List<String>.

Is a List<String> mappable by Hibernate using annotations? I mean, since it does not have the @Entity annotation?

Regards

Answer 1

Use @ElementCollection:

@ElementCollection
@CollectionTable(name="Nicknames", joinColumns=@JoinColumn(name="user_id"))
@Column(name="nickname")
public List<String> getNicknames() { ... } 

Source: 7.2.3. Collections of basic types and embeddable objects