JPA 1.0 Mapping I (Java EE 5)
Agenda 
- Entity Relationships 
 
- Directionality 
 
- Cardinality 
 
- Inheritance (will be covered in “JPA Mapping II”)
 
Entity Relationships
Aspects of Entity Relationships 
- Directionality 
- Uni-directional 
 
- Bi-directional
 
 
- Cardinality relationships 
- One to one 
 
- One to many 
 
- Many to many 
 
 
- Inheritance relationship 
- Single-table 
 
- Joined-table
 
 
Entity Relationships: Java vs. Table 
- Relationship between entities in Java code is normal object relationship 
 
- Relationship among tables can be represented in two forms 
 
- You can control how the object relationship between Java objects can be mapped into tables through JPA annotations
 
 
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