I've been debugging Annotations code for about 15 days, looking to get EntityMode.DOM4J working with annotations.

My technique was to study how org.hibernate.cfg.HbmBinder works, then I try to replicate the same behavior on
AnnotationBinder.
To replicate the behavior of embed-xml=true, on HbmBinder embed-xml seems like default true.

Finally I changed these files:

AnnotationBinder, line 1947, added sentence:
value.setEmbedded(true);

and

CollectionBinder, line 627, added sentences:
collection.setEmbedded(true);
oneToMany.setEmbedded(true);

-I searched for ocurrences of setEmbedded-
I'm doubtful about AnnotationBinder, line 1546, it seems that the logic of javax.persistence.Embeddable interfers with the logic of the embed-xml flag.

Question, ¿does it really matters, not set the value on line 1546?
Does javax.persistence.Embeddable interfers whith EntityMode.DOM4J or viceversa?