JPA Annotated objects as regular Value Objects

Question

I have a class that has JPA annotations.. @Embedded, @AttributesOverride, etc. Can I use this object as regular POJO / VO? What happens to these annotations then? Are they simply ignored? Or they will still be used / active?

Answer 1

You can safely use these POJOs as you want. Just ignore the annotations. They are needed only for persistence of your entities.