Using Hibernate Annotations:

@Entity public class TestEntity {
   @Enumerated(EnumType.STRING)   
   @Column(name="ENUM_TYPE")   
   private TestEnum testEnum; 
}

Using XML Based Mapping :   Add  hibernate-annotations.jar in your classpath during deployment but there’s no compile-time dependency:

<property name="testEnum" length="30" column="testEnum" lazy="false">
<type name="org.hibernate.type.EnumType">
<param name="enumClass">test.TestEnum</param>
<param name="type">12</param> <!-- To store enum value as VARCHAR -->
</type>
</property>