Pro Hibernate and MongoDB

CHAPTER 5

Hibernate OGM and JPA 2.0 Annotations

Mapping Java entities in Hibernate OGM can be divided into supported and non-supported annotations. Practically, Hibernate OGM supports the mandatory annotations like @Entity and @Id, as well as all the commonly used annotations like @Table and @Column. However, in the 4.0.0.Beta2 release, it doesn’t support some “pretentious” annotations, like @Inheritance and @DiscriminatorColumn. Unsupported annotations may cause errors or work inappropriately, or may be entirely ignored.

Hibernate OGM translates each entity in accordance with the official specification, but adapted to MongoDB capabilities. This ...