Please explain about: insertable=false, updatable=false

If a field is annotated insertable=false, updatable=false, doesnt it mean that you cannot insert value nor change the existing value? Why would u want to do that?

Do you mean something like this BalusC?

@Entity
public class Person {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;

    @OneToMany(mappedBy="person", cascade=CascadeType.ALL)
    private List<Address> addresses;
}

@Entity
public class Address {

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)
    private Long id;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name="ADDRESS_FK")
    @Column(insertable=false, updatable=false)
    private Person person;
}

You would do that when the responsibility of creating/udpating the related entity in question isn’t in the current entity. E.g. you have a Person and an Address. You’d like to add insertable=false, updatable=false to the @OneToMany relationship with the Person entity in the Address entity, simply because it’s not the responsibility of the Address entity to create or update a Person. It’s the other way round. This is not really a technical, but more a semantic/natural decision.