Question

I have in my database 3 tables with many-to-one relationships between them:

A *---1 B *---1 C

Now I have entities like:

class A {
   private B b;
   ...
}

class B {
   private C c;
   ...
}

class C {
   ...
}

Now my question is if it is possible to have Hibernate XML mapping to achieve this:

class A {
   private C c;
   ...
}

Answer 1

No, it’s not possible. But you may have a getter method:

public C getC() {
    return b.getC();
}