Hello,

I would like to map an extended class to a table and a "parent" table.
 This means:

I have following classes:

 Item 
   SpecialItem extends Book

and following tables:

 items
   items_specialitem

IMHO the advantage of this structure is that the items_specialitem "extends" 
the items table and I don't have duplicated attributes in the tables. the 
"items_specialitem" has a fk_item which should be a foreign key to the items 
table.

so I setted up following mappings:
==================================
<class-descriptor class="item.Item" table="items">
    
    <object-cache class="org.apache.ojb.broker.cache.ObjectCacheEmptyImpl" />
    
    <field-descriptor
                     name="id"
                     column="pk_item"
                     jdbc-type="INTEGER"
                     primarykey="true"
                     autoincrement="true"
                     />
    <field-descriptor
                     name="name"
                     column="item_name"
                     jdbc-type="VARCHAR"
                     />
</class-descriptor>

<class-descriptor class="item.concreteItems.book.Book" table="items_books">
    <object-cache class="org.apache.ojb.broker.cache.ObjectCacheEmptyImpl" />
    
    <extent-class class-ref="item.Item"/>

    <field-descriptor
                     name="isbn"
                     column="isbn"
                     jdbc-type="VARCHAR"
                     />
    <field-descriptor
                     name="author"
                     column="author"
                     jdbc-type="VARCHAR"
                     />
    <field-descriptor
                     name="publisher"
                     column="publisher"
                     jdbc-type="VARCHAR"
                     />
    <!-- foreign key -->
    <reference-descriptor name="id" class-ref="item.Item"
                          auto-retrieve="true"
                          auto-update="true"
                          auto-delete="true">
        <foreignkey field-ref="fk_item"/>
    </reference-descriptor>
</class-descriptor>
==================================

 But this won't work.

The aim is to make a store transaction of a specialitem and this transaction 
should insert/udate/delete automagically the items and items_specialitem 
table.

I did not find a working solution via google (I just read this model is not 
supported by OJB??)

It would be very nice if someone could give me some hints how this could be 
realized...

If you need further information about classes/tables/configs - please let me 
know.

Thx in advance,
stefan walkner

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