Using Play! framework and it's JPASupport class I have run into a problem with a legacy database.

I have the following class:

@Entity
@Table(name="product_catalog")
public class ProductCatalog extends JPASupport {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    public Integer product_catalog;

    @OneToOne
    @JoinColumn(name="upper_catalog")
    public ProductCatalog upper_catalog;

    public String name;
}

Some product catalogs don't have an upper catalog, and this is referenced as 0 in a legacy database. If I supply the upper_catalog as NULL, then expectedly JPA inserts a NULL value to that database column. How could I force the null values to be 0 when writing to the database and the other way around when reading from the database?