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title: "Guide to @EmbeddedTable in Hibernate"
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# Guide to @EmbeddedTable in Hibernate

**[Baeldung](https://daily.dev/sources/baeldung)** · 3 min read · 3 upvotes · 1 comments

## Summary

Hibernate 7.2 introduces the @EmbeddedTable annotation, which simplifies mapping embeddable objects to secondary database tables. Previously, developers had to use @SecondaryTable combined with @AttributeOverride for every individual field, which was verbose and error-prone. With @EmbeddedTable, a single annotation on the embedded field automatically maps all its columns to the specified secondary table. The post covers the motivation, a practical usage example with a test case, and key limitations: it is Hibernate-specific (not part of the Jakarta Persistence spec), marked @Incubating (API may change), and does not yet support nested embedded objects.

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**@henrybrown** · 0 upvotes

> This is a much cleaner and far less error prone approach to handling a top-level embedded object. In practice, the fact that it is Hibernate specific, rather than a JPA specification feature is not really a big limitation since one rarely changes providers inside a project.

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