JPA Multiple Embedded fields

Question

Is it possible for a JPA entity class to contain two embedded (@Embedded) fields? An example would be:

@Entity
public class Person {
    @Embedded
    public Address home;

    @Embedded
    public Address work;
}

public class Address {
    public String street;
    ...
}

In this case a Person can contain two Address instances - home and work. I'm using JPA with Hibernate's implementation. When I generate the schema using Hibernate Tools, it only embeds one Address. What I'd like is two embedded Address instances, each with its column names distinguished or pre-pended with some prefix (such as home and work). I know of @AttributeOverrides, but this requires that each attribute be individually overridden. This can get cumbersome if the embedded object (Address) gets big as each column needs to be individually overridden.

Answer 1

The generic JPA way to do it is with @AttributeOverride. This should work in both EclipseLink and Hibernate.

@Entity 
public class Person {
  @AttributeOverrides({
    @AttributeOverride(name="street",column=@Column(name="homeStreet")),
    ...
  })
  @Embedded public Address home;

  @AttributeOverrides({
    @AttributeOverride(name="street",column=@Column(name="workStreet")),
    ...
  })
  @Embedded public Address work;
  }

  @Embeddable public class Address {
    @Basic public String street;
    ...
  }
}