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Asked: 2026-06-17T13:08:22+00:00

In a Student and Group relationship, where a student can create a ‘group’ of

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In a Student and Group relationship, where a student can create a ‘group’ of which other students can be members, this is a many to many relationship.

Now, i need to be keep track of which student is owner/creator of the group.

So, if i was not using Hibernate ORM i would have definately created the relationship as Student group many to many rel

I would like to know if there is a better way, to avoid creating the mapping table as object in hibernate orm?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The mapping table is definitely the way to go when developing a many-to-many relationship. If you don’t want to store the isOwner in the mapping table, you could store an ownerId in the Group table and have that point to a particular Student id.

    If you look at this tutorial, they don’t generate a hibernate object for the many-to-many relationship, but the table still exists. You’re going to need a join table of some sort to correctly represent a many-to-many relationship. By moving the isOwner into the group, you won’t need the hibernate object to access the owning student since you can get to it from the Owner object.

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