The strategy and the discriminator column are only specified in the root of an entity class hierarchy or subhierarchy in which a different inheritance strategy is applied

If the DiscriminatorColumn annotation is missing, and a discriminator column is required, the name of the discriminator column defaults to "DTYPE" and the discriminator type to DiscriminatorType.STRING .

     Example:
     @Entity
     @Table(name="CUST")
     @Inheritance(strategy=SINGLE_TABLE)
     @DiscriminatorColumn(name="DISC", discriminatorType=STRING,length=20)
     public class Customer { ... }

     @Entity
     public class ValuedCustomer extends Customer { ... }