/*
* Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Sun Microsystems. All rights reserved.
*
* This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
* terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 and Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0
* which accompanies this distribution.
* The Eclipse Public License is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
* and the Eclipse Distribution License is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
*
* Contributors:
* Linda DeMichiel - Java Persistence 2.0 - Version 2.0 (October 1, 2009)
* Specification available from http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=317
*/
// $Id: Embeddable.java 20957 2011-06-13 09:58:51Z stliu $
package javax.persistence;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import java.lang.annotation.Documented;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.TYPE;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
/**
* Defines a class whose instances are stored as an intrinsic
* part of an owning entity and share the identity of the entity.
* Each of the persistent properties or fields of the embedded
* object is mapped to the database table for the entity.
*
* <p> Note that the {@link Transient} annotation may be used to
* designate the non-persistent state of an embeddable class.
*
* <pre>
*
* Example 1:
*
* @Embeddable public class EmploymentPeriod {
* @Temporal(DATE) java.util.Date startDate;
* @Temporal(DATE) java.util.Date endDate;
* ...
* }
*
* Example 2:
*
* @Embeddable public class PhoneNumber {
* protected String areaCode;
* protected String localNumber;
* @ManyToOne PhoneServiceProvider provider;
* ...
* }
*
* @Entity public class PhoneServiceProvider {
* @Id protected String name;
* ...
* }
*
* Example 3:
*
* @Embeddable public class Address {
* protected String street;
* protected String city;
* protected String state;
* @Embedded protected Zipcode zipcode;
* }
*
* @Embeddable public class Zipcode {
* protected String zip;
* protected String plusFour;
* }
* </pre>
*
* @since Java Persistence 1.0
*/
@Documented
@Target({TYPE})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Embeddable {
}