The canonical representation of a value can't violate the pattern restriction for its type. For more information, see Canonical Forms and Pattern Restrictions. Enumeration facets [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] ...

JPA and Hibernate enum mapping. The Java enum, introduced in Java 5, will map to the underlying database without any intervention. The JPA framework, be it Hibernate or Toplink or DataNucleus, will ...