How to define UserType username globally in Hibernate?

Question

You can use the @TypeDefs annotation to define a short type name for UserType. But how to define it for the whole application?

Answer 1

You can specify a base value type name (see http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.6/reference/en-US/html_single/#mapping-types-basictypes ) in your UserType class, making this class a replacement standard class.

For instance:

<typedef name="string" 
      class="com.foo.hibernate.userType.NewStringUserType"></typedef>