Hi Hardy, I've seen lots of unit tests that have @SecondaryTable. I didn't make the connection that it was non-association attributes that refer to a secondary table.
Thanks for the clarification. Gail ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hardy Ferentschik" <ha...@hibernate.org> > To: "Gail Badner" <gbad...@redhat.com> > Cc: "Hibernate hibernate-dev" <hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org> > Sent: Friday, March 1, 2013 2:07:56 AM > Subject: Re: [hibernate-dev] Is @SecondaryTable required when a join table is > specified? > > Hi, > > Secondary tables and associations (join tables) are really two > different things. A secondary table allows you to map your entity > properties to > multiple tables. @JoinTable on the other hand are used to map > associations and configure certain properties of the join table. > One does not require the other. I am not sure what makes you believe > that using @JoinTable requires the use of @SecondaryTable. > If you after some examples have a look at the JPA spec as well. It is > a good starting point. > > Regarding the metamodel branch, I am not sure about the binders and > so on, but afaicr the sources does not imply the link > between join table and secondary table. > > --Hardy > > > On 1 Jan 2013, at 7:13 AM, Gail Badner <gbad...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > I noticed that org.hibernate.test.annotations.onetoone.OneToOneTest > > and OptionalOneToOnePKJCTest uses this mapping: > > > > https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/master/hibernate-core/src/test/resources/org/hibernate/test/annotations/onetoone/orm.xml > > > > Son.father specifies a join-table ("father_son"), but has no > > <secondary-table>. There is no @SecondaryTable defined in Son > > (this is a unidirectional association). > > > > I thought that @SecondaryTable was required when an association > > uses a join table. Currently, that's how it works in the new > > metamodel. > > > > Should it be optional? > > > > Thanks, > > Gail > > _______________________________________________ > > hibernate-dev mailing list > > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
