JPA Interface problem...

gistfile1.java

@Entity(name = "Player")
public class PlayerImpl implements Player {
	@Id
	@Column(name = "PlayerId")
	private Integer id = -1;

	@Embedded
	private PersonName name;  //to get this to work, I have to re-type this as PersonNameImpl and cast in the setter

	public PersonName getName() {
		return name;
	}

	public void setName(PersonName name) {
		this.name = name;
	}
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}

@Embeddable
public class PersonNameImpl implements PersonName {
	@Column(name="FirstName")
	private String firstName;
	@Column(name="LastName")
	private String lastName;

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}