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Cheat Sheet - Inheritance Mappings

The document discusses inheritance mappings in object-relational mapping (ORM) with a focus on different strategies such as Table per Class, Mapped Superclass, and Joined inheritance. It highlights the trade-offs between performance and consistency in these strategies. The document also includes code examples illustrating the use of annotations for defining these inheritance types.

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Cheat Sheet - Inheritance Mappings

The document discusses inheritance mappings in object-relational mapping (ORM) with a focus on different strategies such as Table per Class, Mapped Superclass, and Joined inheritance. It highlights the trade-offs between performance and consistency in these strategies. The document also includes code examples illustrating the use of annotations for defining these inheritance types.

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Inheritance Mappings

Polymorphic queries or
associations?

No, but stay flexible No Yes

Table per Class Mapped Superclass Performance or


consistency?
@Entity @MappedSuperclass

@Inheritance(strategy = public abstract class Publication { … } Consistency Performance

InheritanceType.TABLE_PER_CLASS)

public abstract class Publication { … } @Entity(name = "Book")


Single Table
public class Book extends Publication { … }
@Entity(name = "Book")
@Entity
public class Book extends Publication { … }
@Inheritance(strategy =
Joined
InheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE)

@Entity @DiscriminatorColumn(name =

@Inheritance(strategy = "Publication_Type")

[Link]) @DiscriminatorValue("Publication")

public abstract class Publication { … } public class Publication { … }

@Entity(name = "Book") @Entity(name = "Book")

public class Book extends Publication { … } @DiscriminatorValue("Book"

public class Book extends Publication { … }

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