@ManayToMany

[Deepika Joshi]

This question is from uCertify trial version
Two Entity classes with bi-driectional many-to-many relationship

@Entity
public class Faculty {
    Collections students;
}

@Entity
public class Student {
    Set <Faculty> faculty;
}

a - @ManyToMany(mappedBy="faculty") on faculty field.
b - @ManyToMany on students field.
c - @ManyToMany(mappedBy="faculty") on students field.
d - @ManyToMany(targetEntity=Student.class) on students field.

Correct ans. - a & d.

I can understand reason for
d - @ManyToMany(targetEntity=Student.class) on students field.
since students field is not using generic it is correct to use d. (targetEntity)

But I am not able to understand how a is correct

I think I need
@ManyToMany(mappedBy="students") on faculty field.

I am totally lost here...

[Christophe Verré]

The inverse side of a bidirectional relationship must refer to its owning side by use of the mappedBy element of the OneToOne, OneToMany, or ManyToMany annotation. The mappedBy element designates the property or field in the entity that is the owner of the relationship. So the mappedBy in Faculty should refer to the faculty field in Student, like written in answer "a".


(Collections students??)

[Deepika Joshi]

Thanks for replying...

(Collections students??)

sorry its,
Collection students

The inverse side of a bidirectional relationship must refer to its owning side by use of the mappedBy element of the OneToOne, OneToMany, or ManyToMany annotation. The mappedBy element designates the property or field in the entity that is the owner of the relationship. So the mappedBy in Faculty should refer to the faculty field in Student, like written in answer "a".

as suggested, following is correct answer
a - @ManyToMany(mappedBy="faculty") on faculty field.

but In Many-to-Many owner can be any side, so can I say, following is also correct,
@ManyToMany(mappedBy="students") on faculty field


Reason for doubt is that I have not seen any example of follwing yet,
@Entity
public class Student {
........@ManyToMany(mappedBy="faculty")
........Set <Faculty> faculty;
}

[Christophe Verré]

but In Many-to-Many owner can be any side, so can I say, following is also correct,
@ManyToMany(mappedBy="students") on faculty field

Yes, this would be correct.

@Entity
public class Student {
   @ManyToMany(mappedBy="faculty")
    Set <Faculty> faculty;
}

No, this is not correct. The container will look for a field called "faculty" in the Faculty entity, which does not exist. This must be @ManyToMany(mappedBy="students"). You should think : Which field is used in the relation on the opposite side ? The field used in Faculty for this relation is "students", so this is the field you have to use in mappedBy (if Student is the owner of the relation).

@Entity
public class Faculty {
    @ManyToMany(mappedBy="faculty")
    Collections students;
}

@Entity
public class Student {
    Set <Faculty> faculty;
}

or

@Entity
public class Faculty {
    Collections students;
}

@Entity
public class Student {
    @ManyToMany(mappedBy="students")
    Set <Faculty> faculty;
}

[Deepika Joshi]

Thanks a lot for your reply.

  @Entity
public class Student {
   @ManyToMany(mappedBy="faculty")
    Set <Faculty> faculty;
}  

No, this is not correct.

then ans a. is not correct choice (refering to very first messgae).

[Christophe Verré]

then ans a. is not correct choice (refering to very first messgae).

You're right, I got messed up with faculties and students I would say that C was the correct answer, instead of A.

[Deepika Joshi]

Thanks

[Omar Al Kababji]

No C is not correct

@ManyToMany(mappedBy="faculty") on students field.

since students is not using Generics and a targetEntity should be used, and you can't annotate students with two @ManyToMany annotations. so i think that the only correct answer is D. however answer A. could have been correct if they replaced it with this one (may be they got it wrong).

 a - @ManyToMany(mappedBy="students") on faculty field.