Override @Where clause condition in Hibernate 4.3.4

I know its too old question but I was facing same issue and thought I should share my workaround.

Totally agree with @cнŝdk answer as you cannot override but you can ignore @Where clause by defining nativeQuery as below:

@Query(value = "Select * from customer where company_id = ?1", nativeQuery = true) List<Customer> findByCompanyIdIgnoringEntityWhere(Long companyId);

The SQL in the @Query annotation must point the table's name and the fields' names (not entity's name).

AFAIK you can't override it inside your class because if you take a look at the @Where documentation you will see that this interface is annotated @Retention(value=RUNTIME) so it has RUNTIME as a RetentionPolicy and you can see in the RetentionPolicy documentation that:

RUNTIME: Annotations are to be recorded in the class file by the compiler and retained by the VM at run time, so they may be read reflectively.

Which force the @Where annotation to be recorded in the class file by the compiler and retained by the VM at run time, so it will be applied all over this class.