Enumerations in Hibernate

It is often useful to have a field in a DAO whose value comes from a Java enumeration. A typical example is a login DAO where you usually have a field that characterises the user as "NORMAL" or "ADMIN". In Hibernate, I would use the following 2 objects to represent this relationship in a (semi-)typesafe way:

class User {
String username;
String passwd;
UserType type;
}


class UserType {
private enum Type {ADMIN, NORMAL};
private String type;


//Setters/Getters for Hibernate
public void setType(String type);
public String getType();


//Setters/Getters for user
public void setUserType(UserType.Type t);
public UserType.Type getUserType();


public static UserType fromType(UserType.Type t);
}

This works, but I find the UserType class ungly and requiring too much bureaucracy just to store a couple of values. Ideally, Hibernate should support enum fields directly and would create an extra table to store the enumeration values.

My question is: Is there any way to directly map an enumeration class in Hibernate? If not, is my pattern for representing enumerations good enough or am I missing something? What other patterns do people use?