Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can use the @EntityListeners, @Embedded, and @Embeddable annotations with JPA and Hibernate to audit entity modifications. After I wrote the article about inheriting properties from a base class entity using @MappedSuperclass, I got an avalanche of opinions, but this one from Lukas deserves a blog post: While @MappedSuperclass has its benefit, allowing you to reuse even the @Id mapping, as well as being more lenient towards Hibernate-specific auto-generated properties like @GeneratedValue, using Embeddable types is the other JPA alternative for reusing… Read More