9.1.1. 每个类分层结构一张表(Table per class hierarchy)

假设我们有接口Payment和它的几个实现类： CreditCardPayment, CashPayment, 和ChequePayment。则“每个类分层结构一张表”(Table per class hierarchy)的映射代码如下所示：

<class name="Payment" table="PAYMENT">
    <id name="id" type="long" column="PAYMENT_ID">
        <generator class="native"/>
    </id>
    <discriminator column="PAYMENT_TYPE" type="string"/>
    <property name="amount" column="AMOUNT"/>
    ...
    <subclass name="CreditCardPayment" discriminator-value="CREDIT">
        <property name="creditCardType" column="CCTYPE"/>
        ...
    </subclass>
    <subclass name="CashPayment" discriminator-value="CASH">
        ...
    </subclass>
    <subclass name="ChequePayment" discriminator-value="CHEQUE">
        ...
    </subclass>
</class>

采用这种策略只需要一张表即可。它有一个很大的限制：要求那些由子类定义的字段， 如CCTYPE，不能有非空(NOT NULL)约束。