>>I think fully working single-class-to-multiple-table mappings will take
quite a while to implement.<<
What about the option of defining a custom map object for a class. For
those special cases (such as multiple table mappings), the custom map could
handle the mapping to the database using hand
>What would be involved in adding support for this in Hibernate? I don't
>need update capablities (at least not yet :) ).
Hey, if you don't need update/insert, why not just define a database view
and map the class to that view as if it were a normal table...
Otherwise you would need to implemen