Is class extends annotations of an other?

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I've a class Foo, which have an @Entity and @Table annotation, and an other class, Bar, which extends Foo. Are the annotations on the Bar class? If not, can I force that?

Thanks a lot! Sam.

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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Annotations are not inherited.

You can read more here: http://fusionsoft-online.com/articles-java-annotations.php

Some other references: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1644135/1001027 and https://stackoverflow.com/a/4745820/1001027

Exceptions are annotations which its declaration is annotated with @Inherited.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered Jun 10 '12 at 18:50

Francisco Spaeth

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By _default_, annotations are not inherited. However, annotations _are_ inherited (from superclasses) if they are meta-annotated with the `@Inherited` annotation. – matts Jun 12 '12 at 22:59
@matts: you are right, annotations are inherited in case its declaration (annotation itself) is annotated with `@Inherited`. – Francisco Spaeth Jun 13 '12 at 06:33

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 12 '12 at 22:54

The @Entity and @Table annotations are not inherited by default, but you can use the @Inheritance annotation on the superclass to cause them to be inherited to subclasses, though.

See here for more information: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/Inheritance

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 10 '12 at 18:50

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Check @MappedSuperclass annotation.

answered Jun 10 '12 at 18:50

vbezhenar

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This is just valid for JPA, it has no meaning for pure java – Francisco Spaeth Jun 10 '12 at 18:53

Is class extends annotations of an other?

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