/*
* 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: Embedded.java 20957 2011-06-13 09:58:51Z stliu $
package javax.persistence;
import java.lang.annotation.Target;
import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.FIELD;
import static java.lang.annotation.ElementType.METHOD;
import static java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME;
/**
* 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 {@link Embeddable}.
*
* <p> The <code>AttributeOverride</code>, <code>AttributeOverrides</code>,
* <code>AssociationOverride</code>, and <code>AssociationOverrides</code>
* annotations may be used to override mappings declared or defaulted
* by the embeddable class.
*
* <pre>
* Example:
*
* @Embedded
* @AttributeOverrides({
* @AttributeOverride(name="startDate", column=@Column("EMP_START")),
* @AttributeOverride(name="endDate", column=@Column("EMP_END"))
* })
* public EmploymentPeriod getEmploymentPeriod() { ... }
* </pre>
*
* @see Embeddable
* @see AttributeOverride
* @see AttributeOverrides
* @see AssociationOverride
* @see AssociationOverrides
*
* @since Java Persistence 1.0
*/
@Target({METHOD, FIELD})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Embedded {
}