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 * Hibernate, Relational Persistence for Idiomatic Java
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package org.hibernate.type;
import org.hibernate.type.descriptor.java.ClassTypeDescriptor;
import org.hibernate.type.descriptor.sql.VarcharTypeDescriptor;

A type that maps between VARCHAR and Class 
Author:
Gavin King, Steve Ebersole/**
 * A type that maps between {@link java.sql.Types#VARCHAR VARCHAR} and {@link Class}
 *
 * @author Gavin King
 * @author Steve Ebersole
 */
public class ClassType extends AbstractSingleColumnStandardBasicType<Class> {
	public static final ClassType INSTANCE = new ClassType();

	public ClassType() {
		super( VarcharTypeDescriptor.INSTANCE, ClassTypeDescriptor.INSTANCE );
	}

	public String getName() {
		return "class";
	}

	@Override
	protected boolean registerUnderJavaType() {
		return true;
	}

}