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Asked: 2026-05-10T23:02:06+00:00

Im searching for the best way to mantain combo box values within a Mysql

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Im searching for the best way to mantain combo box values within a Mysql Database accessed by Hibernate objects.

Currently we have the following table:

CREATE TABLE COMBO_VALUES(    KEY VARCHAR(5) NOT NULL,    COMBO_TYPE VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,    VALUE VARCHAR(100) NOT NULL    PRIMARY KEY(KEY,COMBO_TYPE) ); INSERT INTO COMBO_VALUES VALUES('A1', 'COMBO1', 'VALUE1'); INSERT INTO COMBO_VALUES VALUES('A2', 'COMBO1', 'VALUE2'); INSERT INTO COMBO_VALUES VALUES('A3', 'COMBO1', 'VALUE3');

The problem with this table is that we are unable to map this with Hibernate.

Anyone has been in this situation before?

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  1. Unless you’re explicitly writing a user interface that you can configure from a database, you shouldn’t be storing combobox options in a database.

    A combobox is simply a mechanism for selecting an option from an enumerated list. It’s a UI artifact, not a data artifact.

    What you should store is a list of enumerated options independent of display mechanism, and pass these to your user interface code which creates a combobox from them.

    That way, if you decide to change to radio buttons, or checkboxes, or a command-line interface later on, only your UI code will change and not the database tables…

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