This sounds pretty useful. I really need to finish reading that JPA
spec. I think I made it through 80 pages or so.
> This is an ORM concept inspired in Cayenne by the JPA spec (the term is
> taken from JPA as well).
>
> An embeddable is a reusable compound ObjAttribute type that maps to multiple
> DbAttributes. E.g. if you have "person" and "organization" tables, that both
> have address columns in them (address1, address2, city, etc.). You can
> create an embeddable "Address", and then use it in both Person and
> Organization entities as a single attribute, even though it maps to multiple
> columns.
>
> We do need a docs entry on that. Hopefully will catch up during beta.
>
> Andrus
>
> On Oct 25, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Andrey Razumovsky wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrus,
>>
>> Are there any docs about embeddables? I suppose I'm not the only one who
>> doesn't know what it is :)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> 2009/10/25 Andrus Adamchik (JIRA) <
[hidden email]>
>>
>>>
>>> [
>>>
>>>
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-1260?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel]
>>>
>>> Andrus Adamchik closed CAY-1260.
>>> --------------------------------
>>>
>>> Resolution: Fixed
>>> Fix Version/s: (was: 3.0)
>>> 3.0 beta 1
>>>
>>>> (Exerimental) Modeler support for embeddables and embedded attributes
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Key: CAY-1260
>>>> URL:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CAY-1260>>>> Project: Cayenne
>>>> Issue Type: Task
>>>> Components: CayenneModeler GUI
>>>> Affects Versions: 3.0
>>>> Reporter: Andrus Adamchik
>>>> Assignee: Andrus Adamchik
>>>> Fix For: 3.0 beta 1
>>>>
>>>> Attachments: 0001-CAY-1260.patch, Embeddable.txt,
>>>
>>> Embeddable1.txt, icon-embeddable.gif, icon-new_embeddable.gif,
>>> Inspector1_5.txt, InspectorObjAttrAndEmbAttributes.txt,
>>> InspectorObjAttrAndEmbAttributes.txt
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Need to implement Modeler support for mapping embeddable objects and
>>>
>>> including them in ObjEntities.
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>>
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>> Andrey
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