Hibernate documentation covers 3 strategies. https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/6.6/introduction/html_single/Hibernate_Introduction.html#mapping-inheritance

Hibernate documentation covers 3 strategies. https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/6.6/introduction/html_single/Hibernate_Introduction.html#mapping-inheritance https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/6.6/introduction/html_s... Technically most people I have seen just use a variant of 3, with @MappedSuperclass.