Expose in AssociationKey means to embed collections (of embeddable) ------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-7201 URL: https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7201 Project: Hibernate ORM Issue Type: New Feature Components: core Reporter: Emmanuel Bernard I am thinking owning entity (or owning EntityKey rather) as well as role. Even though role is defined at the property level and not at the column name level. Ideally add support beyond @elementCollection to be able to denormalize later even true collections. But retrieving the EntityKey and the role might be tricky -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira