I'm using Hibernate to map my object model to a relational model. If I would want to use the SNMP4J types, I would have to jump through all kinds of hoops (implementing UserType's etc). Mathias On 16 Mar 2005, at 23:41, Frank Fock wrote: > Understood. I wondered why not using the SNMP4J types from the > org.snmp4j.smi package?