title: is it possible to map string column to boolean field in hibernate
body: <p>I have a table in which i have a column with datatype char(3) and it can be either  YES or NULL. In the Java class, I want to map this column with a boolean field. I know that one should be defining column datatype as BIT but it cannot be done now.</p>
  
  <p>is it possible to map string column to boolean field in hibernate</p>