JPA Annotation Locations with Hibernate

Just ran into this one at work. If you're using Hibernate as your JPA provider (not sure if this is true for others, please comment) all of your annotations on the main entity, mapped super class, embedded classes, etc. must be in the same location (either all on the properties or all on the methods). The reason behind it is at StackOverflow. Basically Hibernate expects the annotations to be in the same location as the first @Id it comes across. I experienced weird errors where it was picking up the property which was mapped to a different column on the table so when Hibernate when to validate the schema it blew up. Hope this helps someone.