What's the difference between the name argument in @Entity and @Table when using JPA?

Question

I\'m using JPA2 and both @Entity and @Table have a name attribute, e. g.:

@Entity(name=\"Foo\")
@Table (name=\"Bar\")
         


        

Answer 1

@Entity is useful with model classes to denote that this is the entity or table

@Table is used to provide any specific name to your table if you want to provide any different name

Note: if you don't use @Table then hibernate consider that @Entity is your table name by default

@Entity    
@Table(name = "emp")     
public class Employee implements java.io.Serializable { }