There are a lot of articles about Hibernate associations in the internet and particularly on my blog. But JPA provides numerous combinations of associations, so it's not strange that we still see new posts about this or that kind of association. Today I want to examine situation with the @JoinTable annotation and intermediary table. For the tutorial I'll use MySQL, Hibernate as implementation of JPA and Maven.
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One of goals the in programming is representation of models from the real world. Very often an application needs to model some relationship between entities. In the last article about Hibernate associations I described the rules of setting up a "one to one" relationship. Today I'm going to show you how to setup a bidirectional "one to many" and "many to one" association. This example will be based on previous Hibernate tutorials.
It's time to continue articles about Hibernate. The last one was dedicated to unidirectional @OneToOne association. So today I will show you how to obtain a bidirectional @OneToOne primary key association. An example from this tutorial is based on the previous article. Let's get started.
Today I want to show you an example of unidirectional one to one association using primary key. It can be a little bit difficult for beginners to setup such association but I will try my best to explain all aspects in a clear way. For this tutorial I choose MySQL as a database, also I will use Hibernate and JPA annotations.
When I talk about SQL databases, I always mean a set of tables with some relations between them. Relations in the databases are possible due to foreign keys. In the post I'm going to make a quick overview of the set up of foreign keys in MySQL using Toad MySQL. MySQL has strict standards, so Toad MySQL shouldn't create many restrictions for porting the steps to any other MySQL development tool.