Understanding EclipseLink, 2.5
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Entities and Inheritance

JPA defines several difference methods for persisting objects with inheritance. The @Inheritance annotation is used in the root class to define SINGLE_TABLE, JOINED, and TABLE_PER_CLASS inheritance. For abstract classes that define common state or persistence behavior, but have no relationship on the database, the @MappedSuperclass annotation can be used.