The annotation @Index is disallowed for this location

hibernate-annotations, java, jpa

Solution

The JPA Index annotation can only be used as part of another annotation like `@Table`, `@SecondaryTable`, etc. (see the See Also section in the javadoc):

@Table(indexes = { @Index(...) })

Problem

When trying to use the `@Index` annotation from `javax.persistence`, Eclipse gives me this error. I'm using it right before a `java.util.Date` field, inside a class annotated with `@Entity`. Before, I was using `org.hibernate.annotations.Index` in the exact same place and it was fine. The problem started after I've upgraded hibernate-core from 4.1.9.Final to 4.3.0.Beta3 and hibernate-commons-annotations from 4.0.1 to 4.0.2. It says `@Index` is deprecated and recommends the `javax.persistence` one. All docs and examples I've found put `@Index` before class members. What am I missing?

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