public class Customers implements Serializable {

    @EmbeddedId
    protected CustomersPK customersPK;
    ...
}

@Embeddable
public class CustomersPK implements Serializable {
    @Basic(optional = false)
    @Column(name = "id")
    private int id;

    @Basic(optional = false)
    @NotNull
    @Column(name = "classes_id")
    private int classesId;
    .....
 }

Classes cl = em.find(Classes.class, classId);

CustomersPK custPK = new CustomersPK();
custPK.setClassesId(cl.getId());
Customers cust = new Customers(custPK);

em.persist(cust);
em.flush();


// The problem is right here where id always equals 0
int id = cust.getCustomerspk().getId();