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-<h1>Specifying entity inheritance</h1>
-<p><a id="sthref80" name="sthref80"></a><a id="sthref81" name="sthref81"></a>An entity may inherit properties from other entities. You can specify a specific strategy to use for inheritance.</p>
-<p>Use this procedure to specify inheritance (<code>@Inheritance)</code> for an existing entity (<code>@Entity</code>):</p>
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-<p>Select the entity in the <span class="gui-object-title">Package Explorer</span>.</p>
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-<p>In the <span class="gui-object-title">JPA Details</span> view, select the <span class="gui-object-action">Inheritance</span> information.</p>
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-<p class="titleinfigure">Specifying Inheritance</p>
-<img src="img/inheritance_tab.png" alt="Selecting the Inheritance area on the JPA Details view." title="Selecting the Inheritance area on the JPA Details view." /><br /></div>
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-<p>In the <span class="bold">Strategy</span> list, select one of the following the inheritance strategies:</p>
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-<p>A single table (default)</p>
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-<p>Joined table</p>
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-<p>One table per class</p>
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-<p>Use the following table to complete the remaining fields on the tab. See <a href="reference012.htm#CACFHGHE">"Inheritance information"</a> for additional details.</p>
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-<td align="left" id="r2c1-t14" headers="r1c1-t14"><a id="sthref83" name="sthref83"></a><a id="sthref84" name="sthref84"></a>Discriminator Column</td>
-<td align="left" headers="r2c1-t14 r1c2-t14">Name of the discriminator column when using a <span class="bold">Single</span> or <span class="bold">Joined</span> inheritance strategy.
-<p>This field corresponds to the <code>@DiscriminatorColumn</code> annotation.</p>
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-<td align="left" id="r3c1-t14" headers="r1c1-t14">Discriminator Type</td>
-<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t14 r1c2-t14">Set the discriminator type to <code>Char</code> or <code>Integer</code> (instead of its default: <code>String</code>). The <span class="bold">Discriminator Value</span> must conform to this type.</td>
-<td align="left" headers="r3c1-t14 r1c3-t14">String</td>
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-<td align="left" id="r4c1-t14" headers="r1c1-t14"><a id="sthref85" name="sthref85"></a><a id="sthref86" name="sthref86"></a>Discriminator Value</td>
-<td align="left" headers="r4c1-t14 r1c2-t14">Specify the discriminator value used to differentiate an entity in this inheritance hierarchy. The value must conform to the specified <span class="bold">Discriminator Type</span>.
-<p>This field corresponds to the <code>@DiscriminatorValue</code> annotation.</p>
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-<td align="left" id="r5c1-t14" headers="r1c1-t14">Override Default</td>
-<td align="left" headers="r5c1-t14 r1c2-t14">Use this field to specify custom primary key join columns.
-<p>This field corresponds to the <code>@PrimaryKeyJoinClumn</code> annotation.</p>
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-<p>Eclipse adds the following annotations the entity field:</p>
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-@Inheritance(strategy=InheritanceType.<span class="italic">&lt;INHERITANCE_STRATEGY&gt;</span>)
-@DiscriminatorColumn(name="<span class="italic">&lt;DISCRIMINATOR_COLUMN&gt;</span>",
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-@DiscriminatorValue(value-"<span class="italic">&lt;DISCRIMINATOR_VALUE&gt;</span>")
-@PrimaryKeyJoinColumn(name="<span class="italic">&lt;JOIN_COLUMN_NAME&gt;</span>",
- referencedColumnName = "<span class="italic">&lt;REFERENCED_COLUMN_NAME&gt;</span>")
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-<p><a id="sthref87" name="sthref87"></a><a id="sthref88" name="sthref88"></a><a id="sthref89" name="sthref89"></a>The following figures illustrates the different inheritance strategies.</p>
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-<p class="titleinfigure">Single Table Inheritance</p>
-<img src="img/inheritance_single.png" alt="This figure illustrates entity inheritance in a single table." title="This figure illustrates entity inheritance in a single table." /><br /></div>
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