If I have this:

@ManyToOne(cascade={CascadeType.CREATE})
@JoinColumn(name="theme", nullable=false)
public Theme getTheme()

in my superclass and

@ManyToOne(targetEntity="DefaultTheme")
public Theme getTheme()

in my subclass, will Annotations support be smart enough to merge the subclass annotations into

@ManyToOne(cascade={CascadeType.CREATE}, targetEntity="DefaultTheme")
@JoinColumn(name="theme", nullable=false)
public Theme getTheme()

or will it discard all superclass annotations and only retain the targetEntity in the subclass? This sort of question also comes into play when the superclass has a @Transient() annotation on a superclass method and say you decide that the subclass should persist it. How would one "remove" the @Transient annotation on the subclass?

Thanks,
Gili

The smart thing will not be done.
About inheritance overriding, we're still having some discussion in the EG.

Just wanted to note that I read somewhere that normal annotations can never be inherited. I think they are implementation-specific modifiers like the keyword "final" and only apply to the class they directly get applied to. Anyway, I will wait on updates from EG.

Thank you,
Gili