Company model and inheritance strategy

[Michael Watzek <mw...@spree.de>]

Hi Craig,

I'm currently preparing different inheritance mappings for hierarchies 
Person/Insurance of the company model. I think of providing separate 
configurations for the following combinations:

1) inheritance strategy:   superclass-table,
    discriminator strategy: value-map

2) inheritance strategy:   subclass-table,
    discriminator strategy: value-map

3) inheritance strategy:   new-table,
    discriminator strategy: value-map

4) inheritance strategy:   superclass-table,
    discriminator strategy: class-name

5) inheritance strategy:   subclass-table,
    discriminator strategy: class-name

6) inheritance strategy:   new-table,
    discriminator strategy: class-name

The idea is to provide the same strategy for all classes of a hierarchy, 
e.g all Person/Insurance classes have strategies 
superclass-table/value-map in case of 1).

Following this idea, I'm not sure if inheritance strategy 
"subclass-table" is supported with the current inheritance hierarchies 
of the company model: Due to the fact that Employee has two subclasses, 
both subclasses have to be mapped to the same table. Otherwise, the 
mapping for Employee is not clear. The same holds true for Insurance.

Does JDO support the case of a common superclass with inheritance 
strategy "subclass-table" having more than one (direct) subclasses?

Regards,
Michael
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