Question

How to make Unidirectional Relationship in EJB 3.0 Entity-Beans (JPA)?

For example Customer know about Order but Order has not any method for Customer.
using (@OneToMany or @OneToOne or @ManyToMany)

Regards

Answer 1

Here’s how you’d make a unidirectional @OneToMany relationship using JPA 2.0:

@Entity
public class Customer {
  @Id
  @Column(name="cust_id")
  private long id;
  ...
  @OneToMany
  @JoinColumn(name="owner_id", referencedColumnName="cust_id")
  private List<Order> order;
  ...
}

@Entity
public class Order {
    @Id
    @Column(name="order_id")
    private long id;
    ...
}

Relational database:

Customer:

+---------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field   | Type    | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+---------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| cust_id | int(11) | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
+---------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+

Order:

+----------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| Field    | Type    | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
+----------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+
| order_id | int(11) | NO   | PRI | NULL    |       |
| owner_id | int(11) | NO   | MUL | NULL    |       |
+----------+---------+------+-----+---------+-------+