Gavin King ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?accountId=557058%... ) *created* an issue Hibernate ORM ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiOTQ5NWQ5ZDhj... ) / Deprecation ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-15772?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiOTQ5NW... ) HHH-15772 ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-15772?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiOTQ5NW... ) deprecate @Target ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-15772?atlOrigin=eyJpIjoiOTQ5NW... ) Issue Type: Deprecation Assignee: Unassigned Created: 27/Nov/2022 14:14 PM Priority: Minor Reporter: Gavin King ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/secure/ViewProfile.jspa?accountId=557058%... ) The @Target annotation is not needed on associations, because the JPA mapping annotations let you specify a target member. The only possible usecase I can see for it is if you have an @Embeddable which implements an interface and you don’t want to write your code around the concrete class but … cmon, it’s not really polymorphic. And once you go and stick @Embeddable on it, you’ve tied your code to the concrete class anyway , just as much as if you had put the concrete class in the type declaration instead of in an annotation. So I say we deprecate this. ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-15772#add-comment?atlOrigin=ey... ) Add Comment ( https://hibernate.atlassian.net/browse/HHH-15772#add-comment?atlOrigin=ey... ) Get Jira notifications on your phone! Download the Jira Cloud app for Android ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atlassian.android.jira.... ) or iOS ( https://itunes.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1006972087?pt=696495&ct=Em... ) This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v1001.0.0-SNAPSHOT#100210- sha1:eab5823 )