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On 09/02/2015 02:58 AM, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I am busy getting grips of JPA. When defining @Column you can use:
>      nullable = false
>
> But it looks like you can not use this with @Embedded. Am I
> overlooking something?
>
A quick look at the Embeddable javadoc shows no optional or required 
elements.

The first web hit for jpa+@Embeddable:
<https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/Embeddables#Nulls>
suggests some extensions around the issue.