Best Practices for Many-to-Many Associations with Hibernate and JPA

Best Practices for Many-to-Many Associations with Hibernate and JPA

Avatar photoByThorben Janssen

Many-to-Many associations are one of the most commonly used associations with JPA and Hibernate. You can find lots of examples for them in the real world, and you can map them with JPA and Hibernate as a uni- or bidirectional association in your domain model. But you probably also know that these mappings provide several…

Best Practices for Many-To-One and One-To-Many Association Mappings
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Best Practices for Many-To-One and One-To-Many Association Mappings

Avatar photoByThorben Janssen

When you model your database, you will most likely define several many-to-one or one-to-many associations. And it’s, of course, the same when you model your entities. It’s quite easy to do that with JPA and Hibernate. You just need an attribute that represents the association and annotate it with a @ManyToOne or @OneToMany association. But…