| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2008, 2018 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. |
| * |
| * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the |
| * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0, |
| * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at |
| * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php. |
| * |
| * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause |
| */ |
| |
| // Contributors: |
| // Linda DeMichiel - Java Persistence 2.1 |
| // Linda DeMichiel - Java Persistence 2.0 |
| |
| 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; |
| |
| /** |
| * Specifies 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 { |
| } |