It is very much possible that an Entity class can have a reference to another class as a member variable. If the referred class does not have it's own life cycle and completely depends on the life cycle of the owning entity class, then the referred class hence therefore is called as the Component class.
The mapping of Collection of Components is also possible in a similar way just as the mapping of regular Collections with minor configuration differences. We will see these two mappings in detail with examples.

Mapping type	Description
Component Mappings	Mapping for a class having a reference to another class as a member variable.

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