Make possible to specify an @EmbeddedId's field in a @OneToMany's mappedBy property ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: ANN-381 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-381 Project: Hibernate Annotations Issue Type: Improvement Components: binder Environment: Hibernate's annotations packaged in JBoss EJB 3.0 RC8- FD Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Reporter: Pierre Fourès Fix For: 3.2.0.cr2 As described in hibernate forum (http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?t=960763) and discussed with Emmanuel, it would be very nice to be able to specify in an @OneToMany's mappedBy property the field of an @EmbeddedId. For example, i would like to be able run this example : @Entity public class Card { @OneToMany(cascade=CascadeType.ALL, fetch=FetchType.EAGER, mappedBy="primaryKey.card") private Set<CardField> fields; } @Entity public class CardField implements Field { @EmbeddedId private PrimaryKey primaryKey = new PrimaryKey(); @Embeddable class PrimaryKey implements Serializable { @ManyToOne(optional = false) private Card card; @ManyToOne(optional = false) private Key key; } } @Entity public class Key {}