JPA: is @PrimaryKeyJoinColumn(…) the same as @JoinColumn(…, insertable = ?, updatable = ?)?

[Karsten Wutzke]

Can anyone confirm (e.g. from the JPA spec) whether @PrimaryKeyJoinColumn(...), which doesn't have the insertable and updatable parameters, is the same as

@JoinColumn(..., insertable = false, updatable = false)

or

@JoinColumn(..., insertable = true, updatable = true)

when used on regular (non-inheritance) associations?

Should they be interchangable? What are the insertable and updatable properties set to? Are they set to anything at all? Note, I'm only targeting the read-only attribute that both (seem to) implement...

I'm getting rather inconsistent mapping exceptions with EclipseLink and Hibernate...

Here's the @PrimaryKeyJoinColumn JavaEE 5 + 6 Javadoc:

http://download.oracle.com/javaee/5/api/javax/persistence/PrimaryKeyJoinColumn.html
http://download.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/persistence/PrimaryKeyJoinColumn.html

Quote: "... and it may be used in a OneToOne mapping in which the primary key of the referencing entity is used as a foreign key to the referenced entity."

Karsten

[James Sutherland]

Yes, the two are equivalent.

Note in JPA 2.0 you can also add an @Id to a OneToOne mapping and avoid having the duplicate basic id attribute altogether.

See,
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/Identity_and_Sequencing#Primary_Keys_through_OneToOne_and_ManyToOne_Relationships

and,
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/OneToOne#Target_Foreign_Keys.2C_Primary_Key_Join_Columns.2C_Cascade_Primary_Keys

[Karsten Wutzke]

Thanks for helping on this! I'll have to file a few bug reports now.

Karsten