[hibernate-dev] overriding target through annotations

[Christian Bauer]

On Nov 29, 2006, at 9:23 PM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:

> Note that I hope the future spec will hopefully handle all cases  
> nicely (ie add a targetElement in @Embedded), @MapKey should go to  
> back the drawing board from a spec POV so we can think of something  
> clean from the begining.

I'm for 2., because @javax.persistence.MapKey is really completely  
useless and has to be redesigned (looks like a legacy case that one  
of the EG members had and thought that it would be useful). So  
enhance @org.hibernate.annotations.MapKey and create a @Target that  
works for @Embedded.