HIBERNATE: IMPLEMENTING INHERITANCES (Introduction & Single-Table Strategy)

So, this is the situation. We have a parent 'Vehicle' class. Then there are two child classes extending from the Vehicle class.

Programmatically expressed as,

PARENT CLASS

CHILD CLASS-1

CHILD CLASS-2

main() method

Resultant Schema

SINGLE-TABLE STRATEGY (more options)

Default inheritance strategy is SINGLE.TABLE

PARENT VEHICLE CLASS

CHILD CLASS-1

This time, the column value for this child class will be 'Bike' inside the table.

CHILD CLASS-2

The value inside the table would be now 'Car'.

main() method:

Resultant Schema