javax.persistence

Annotation Type Embedded

@Target(value={ANNOTATION_TYPE,METHOD,FIELD})
 @Retention(value=RUNTIME)
public @interface Embedded

Specifies a persistent field or property of an entity whose value is an instance of an embeddable class. The embeddable class must be annotated as Embeddable.

The AttributeOverride, AttributeOverrides, AssociationOverride, and AssociationOverrides annotations may be used to override mappings declared or defaulted by the embeddable class.

   Example:

   @Embedded
   @AttributeOverrides({
       @AttributeOverride(name="startDate", column=@Column("EMP_START")),
       @AttributeOverride(name="endDate", column=@Column("EMP_END"))
   })
   public EmploymentPeriod getEmploymentPeriod() { ... }
 

Since:

Java Persistence 1.0

See Also:

Embeddable, AttributeOverride, AttributeOverrides, AssociationOverride, AssociationOverrides

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
Class	targetEntity (Optional) The entity class that is the target of the association.

Element Detail

targetEntity

public abstract Class targetEntity

(Optional) The entity class that is the target of the association.

Defaults to the type of the field or property that stores the association.

Returns:

target entity

Default:

void.class