Why do we use @Embeddable In Hibernate

Question

What\'s the use of @Embedded and @Embeddable In Hibernate ? Because every example i found on internet is inserting data inside of a single table an

Answer 1

suppose we have employee table annotated with @entity and employee has Address so here i dont want to create two tables i.e employee and address, i just want create only one table i.e employee not Address table then we need to declare Address instance in Employee and add @embedable annotation on top of Address class, so finally we get table employee with its record and address records as well in single employee table

Answer 2

There are two types of objects in Hibernate
1. Value Object
2. Entities

Value Objects are the objects which can not stand alone. Take Address, for example. If you say address, people will ask whose address is this. So it can not stand alone.

Entity Objects are those who can stand alone like College and Student.

So in case of value objects preferred way is to Embed them into an entity object.

To answer why we are creating two different classes: first of all, it's a OOPS concept that you should have loose coupling and high cohesion among classes. That means you should create classes for specialized purpose only. For example, your Student class should only have the info related to Student.

Second point is that by creating different classes you promote re-usability.

When we define the value object for the entity class we use @Embeddable.
When we use value type object in entity class we use @Embedded

Answer 3

One entity can be embedded in another entity. The attributes of an entity can be common attributes of more than one entity. In this case there can be one embeddable entity. And this embeddable entity can be embedded in more than one entity.

Let's consider an example. We have one Animal entity, which has name and location attributes. Now two different entities Lion and Elephant can have Animal attributes just by embedding the Animal entity. We can override the attributes. In Animal entity there is location attribute and in Elephant there is place attribute. So with the help of @AttributeOverrides we can do like below:

@AttributeOverrides({ @AttributeOverride(name = "location", column = @Column(name = "place")) })