Oracle® Containers for J2EE Enterprise JavaBeans Developer's Guide 10g (10.1.3.5.0) Part Number E13981-01 |
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Use a many-to-one mapping to represent simple pointer references between two Java objects. In Java, a single pointer stored in an attribute represents the mapping between the source and target objects. Relational database tables implement these mappings using foreign keys.
You define a many-to-one mapping at one of the property (getter or setter method) or field level of your entity.
For more information, see "Understanding One-to-One Mapping" in the Oracle TopLink Developer's Guide.
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For an EJB 3.0 basic mapping code example, see:http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/java/oc4j/ejb3/howtos-ejb3/howtoejb30mappingannotations/doc/how-to-ejb30-mapping-annotations.html#manytoone
.Example 7-21 shows how to use the @ManyToOne
annotation to specify a many-to-one mapping for field manager
.