Why Hibernate STRING can not be resolved?

Question

I just downloaded new release of Hibernate 4.0.1 final release. It is very strange that when I type the following code:

Hibernate.STRING

The eclipse IDE showing an error on the STRING keyword. I am sure that I have the hibernate jar in my build path, and the following code has been included as well:

import org.hibernate.Hibernate;

I just wonder why this could happen?

Answer 1

Because that field doesn't exist in 4.0.

The field documentation in 3.5 says this:

Deprecated. see http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-5138

You can now use StandardBasicTypes.STRING (which is pretty much StringType.INSTANCE).