Eu encontro um problema de mapeamento JPA / Hibernate em uma "linguagem" de coluna em uma tabela MySQL cujo tipo é char (7). Na minha entidade, o código gerado para o campo é:

    private String language;

isso causa a seguinte exceção no tempo de execução:

        ... 43 more
Caused by: javax.persistence.PersistenceException: [PersistenceUnit: prosvetaPersistenceUnit] Unable to build EntityManagerFactory
    at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:911)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.HibernatePersistence.createContainerEntityManagerFactory(HibernatePersistence.java:74)
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.createNativeEntityManagerFactory(LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:225)
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.afterPropertiesSet(AbstractEntityManagerFactoryBean.java:308)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.invokeInitMethods(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1477)
    at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.initializeBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1417)
    ... 58 more
Caused by: org.hibernate.HibernateException: Wrong column type in joo16_dev.jos_categories for column language. Found: char, expected: varchar(255)
    at org.hibernate.mapping.Table.validateColumns(Table.java:283)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.validateSchema(Configuration.java:1313)
    at org.hibernate.tool.hbm2ddl.SchemaValidator.validate(SchemaValidator.java:139)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:378)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1842)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:902)
    ... 63 more

Desde já, obrigado

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