@Target has been deprecated since 6.2, but still is referenced in the docs as a way to let Hibernate known the concrete type to use for embeddables in some cases. I have a scenario where I’m using it to resolve a generic ambiguity and I’m not aware of any other easy alternative, other than perhaps …

@Target deprecated but still needed?

beikov June 18, 2025, 1:09pm 2

In ORM 7.0, a new annotation called TargetEmbeddable was introduced as part of HHH-18198

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