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On 8/2/2012 12:04 PM, Donkey Hottie wrote:

> First problem I have is to translate the type to a lower level
> application API call. I can not leave the cast or type conversion to
> compiler only.


I'm going to ignore other obvious problems and simply focus on the big 
picture here.  You idea how to accomplish this looks *TERRIBLE*.  Why 
aren't you using some kind of ORM?  At least use a light-weight library 
for translating data base entities into objects.

<http://commons.apache.org/dbutils/>

Also JPA will do some kinds of automatic instantiation for you:

<http://openjpa.apache.org/builds/1.0.4/apache-openjpa-1.0.4/docs/manual/jpa_overview_mapping_inher.html>

I didn't check to see if those are the most recent docs (I don't use 
this sort of feature).  Google for "JPA table inheritance" and check 
through the results carefully.


> Class is a simple version containg only the important parts.


Honestly, while we all appreciate the attempt, you example is far from 
complete.  We can guess at a few things, but you should think much more 
carefully at what the real problem is and design something to illustrate 
it.