Entity Associations in Hibernate

Hibernate lets you map associations between persistent classes to reflect the relationships between the underlying database tables.

For example, we can map the associations on these Java classes

to the foreign key constraint on these tables

SQL is automatically generated and executed by Hibernate when the associations are accessed.

one to many

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