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In my application I use JPA 2.0 with Hibernate as the persistence provider. I have a one-to-many relationship between two entities (using a @JoinColumn and not @JoinTable). I wanted to know how could I specify inverse=true (as specified in hbm.xml) in JPA annotations to reverse the relationship owner.
Thank you.
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The attribute mappedBy indicates that the entity in this side is the inverse of the relationship, and the owner resides in the other entity. Other entity will be having @JoinColumn annotaion and @ManyToOne relationship. Hence I think inverse = true is same as @ManyToOne annotation.
But, it's real meaning is that it defines which side is the parent or the relationship owner for the two entities (parent or child). Hence, inverse="true" in a Hibernate mapping shows that this class (the one with this XML definition) is the relationship owner; while the other class is the child.
An Inverse attribute is used to maintain the relationship between the parent and child class object. The inverse attribute is used only with bi-directional mappings such as one-to-many and many-to-many Hibernate mapping.
In JPA the object id is defined through the @Id annotation and should correspond to the primary key of the object's table. An object id can either be a natural id or a generated id. A natural id is one that occurs in the object and has some meaning in the application.
JPA annotations are not supported fully in the jdk if we use hibernate in jpa most probably @Id as the primary key for each table entity class @sequenceGenerator annotation is used to generate the primary keys automatically these are the some basic annotations for jpa in hibernate.
@Converter The @Converter annotation is used to specify that the current annotate AttributeConverter implementation can be used as a JPA basic attribute converter. See the AttributeConverter section for more info.
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I found an answer to this. The mappedBy attribute of @OneToMany annotation behaves the same as inverse = true in the xml file.
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The attribute mappedBy indicates that the entity in this side is the inverse of the relationship, and the owner resides in the other entity. Other entity will be having @JoinColumn annotaion and @ManyToOne relationship. Hence I think inverse = true is same as @ManyToOne annotation.
Also inverse=”true” mean this is the relationship owner to handle the relationship.
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