Is the JPA @Embedded annotation mandatory?

Question

I have tried omitting the @Embedded annotation and still the fields have been embedded in the table. I cannot find anything which would say tha

Answer 1

Embedded-Embeddable is not mandatory, but it gives you nice OOP perspective of your entities' relationship. Another way to do such a thing - is to use OneToOne mapping. But in such a case entity WILL be written to separate table (while in case of embedded it CAN be written to the separate table in your DB).