Enhancing JPublisher-Generated Classes

You might want to enhance the functionality of a custom Java class generated by JPublisher by adding methods and transient fields to it.

Ways to enhance JPublisher-generated classes

Extend the class. That is, treat the JPublisher-generated class as a superclass, write a subclass to extend its functionality, and then map the object type to the subclass.
Write a new class that delegates the functionality provided by the JPublisher-generated class to a field whose type is the generated class.
Add methods to the class. This is not recommended if you anticipate running JPublisher at some future time to regenerate the class. If you regenerate a class that you have modified in this way, your changes (that is, the methods you have added) will be overwritten. Even if you direct JPublisher output to a separate file, you will still need to merge your changes into the file.