currencies

[Adam Hardy]

From googling and a quick scan of the mailing list archives, it looks as if I 
can't map java.util.Currency directly to a database column using pure JPA.

Unless anyone can tell me I'm wrong, I'm thinking of doing it with my own enum 
of the currencies that my app uses and map it with

<enumerated>

Then the question becomes: what would be more future-compatible - ORDINAL or 
STRING?

I assume STRING because java.util.Currency has no ordinal, but if I use STRING, 
won't JPA save the String TradedCurrency.USD or TradedCurrency.EUR instead of 
just USD or EUR?


Thanks
Adam