posted 19 years ago
It means that:
(1) I can map an inheritance hierarchy to a suitable relational model (using a choice of various data modelling strategies)
(2) I can have an association, or a query, which refers to a superclass, and Hibernate will instantiate and populate an instance of the correct subclass at runtime
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