Benjamin Makus commented on an issue
Hibernate ORM / Bug HHH-8536
@Embeddable ignores "length" attribute for @Column
I've before created a question on StackOverflow (with code examples): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18937049/embeddable-wont-set-length-of-columns

The problem is simply, when using "@Column(name="MyColumn", length=16)" inside an "@Embeddable" class. Then the column name gets set correctly, but the length gets ignored (set to 255). In addition hibe...