I have classes and annotations as following.

class A {
@Embedded
B getB() {
return b;
}
}

@Embeddable
abstract class B {
}

class C extends B {
}

class D extends B {
}

See, I declare B an Embeddable entity. Also I turned on Discriminator parameters for B, C and D.

I try to persist instances of A.

A a = new A();
a.setB(new C());
session.save(a);

But Hibernate tries to instantiate an instance of B and save it, which fails since B is abstract. So my question is how to let Hibernate tell which is the real class to persist with? I tried @Target, but it only allows one class specified.

Best,
bonjovi