[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Created: (ANN-528) avoid auto import of superclasses to avoid inheritance mapping

[Armin Haaf (JIRA)]

avoid auto import of superclasses to avoid inheritance mapping
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         Key: ANN-528
         URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-528
     Project: Hibernate Annotations
        Type: New Feature

  Components: binder  
    Reporter: Armin Haaf


It is not possible to avoid inheritance mapping if the superclass of a entity is also a entity. 

Background: A framework provides a basic mapping of a entity, but I want to extend that. 

With annotations it is not possible to just map my extended version and have the superclass behave like a MappedSuperclass. This behaviour is  acceptable but it is not possible to override a the id generation.

So it might be better to have a new annotation (e.g. @RootEntity(mapSuperclass=true)) to avoid auto import of the entity superclass. With that approach it would be easier to create modules and frameworks




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