Can I annotate a member inherited from a superclass?

Question

If I have a class such as:

class Person {
  private String name;
  ...constructor, getters, setters, equals, hashcode, tostring...
}

Can I subc

Answer 1

That wont work since the fields in super class will not be affected, but you can try this

@Entity
class Employee extends Person {
  @Column(name="xxx")
  @Override
  public void setName(String name) {
     super.setName(name);
  }
  ...