I am trying to use Hibernate with hbm2ddl.auto set to validate so that Hibernate must respect my DB schema, instead of auto-generating tables around my Java classes.
A lot of my tables are so-called "lookup" or "reference" tables, that essentially consist of id, name and tag fields:
credit_card_types
    credit_card_type_id           Ex: "12"
    credit_card_type_name         Ex: "Visa"
    credit_card_type_tag          Ex: "VISA"
payment_types
    payment_type_id               Ex: "2"
    payment_type_name             Ex: "Google Checkout"
    payment_type_tag              EX: "GOOGLE_CHECKOUT"
etc.
I'd like to model these as follows:
public class BaseLookup {
    private Long id;
    private String name;
    private String tag;
    // ...getters, setters and ctors, etc.
}
public class CreditCardTypes extends BaseLookup {
    // .. perhaps a few other fields, methods, etc...
}
public class PaymentTypes extends BaseLookup {
    // .. perhaps a few other fields, methods, etc...
}
The problem is I don't want Hibernate to search for (validate against) a lookups table: I want it to validate aginst 2 lookup tables called credit_card_types and payment_types respectively.
What annotations/configs do I need to allow this type of Java inheritance but to only create my 2 lookup tables (and not 3)? Thanks in advance!