public @Interface Basic

The Basic annotation may be applied to a property or instance variable whose type is any one of the following:

• a Java primitive type, or wrapper of a primitive type,
• String,
• java.math.BigInteger or java.math.BigDecimal,
• java.time.LocalDate, java.time.LocalTime, java.time.LocalDateTime, java.time.OffsetTime, java.time.OffsetDateTime, java.time.Instant, or java.time.Year
• java.util.Date or java.util.Calendar,
• java.sql.Date, java.sql.Time, or java.sql.Timestamp,
• byte[] or Byte[], char[] or Character[],
• a Java enum type, or
• any other serializable type.

The use of the Basic annotation is optional for persistent fields and properties of these types. If the Basic annotation is not specified for such a field or property, the default values of the Basic annotation apply.

The database column mapped by the persistent field or property may be specified using the Column annotation.

Example 1:

@Basic
protected String name;

Example 2:

@Basic(fetch = LAZY)
protected String getName() { return name; }

The use of java.util.Date, java.util.Calendar, java.sql.Date, java.sql.Time, java.sql.Timestamp, Character[], or Byte[] as the type of a basic attribute is now discouraged. Newly-written code should use the date/time types defined in the package java.time, or the primitive array types char[] and byte[].