Is it possible to configure Hibernate to allow Multi use Values?

Question

i'd like to ask is the following shema is realizeable with Hibernate:

I have a Table called Dog and another one called Owner.

I can have one Owner for severeal dogs. On the Other side i can have severeal dogs for severeal User. It's a thing of perspective i think.

The goal would be to realize a hbm.xml Map which allow to get all owner from a dog and to get all dogs from severeal owner.

I need to programm a Function that support this. I hope u can follow my thoughts.

I even tried it and got a recursiv StackoverFlow because when i'm calling for a dog it will try to fill his owner. When the owner is called from a dog it try's to get all dog from the current owner and again again till my overflow.

If this is to complex i can make a cutomized Code.

Thanks, so far.

Answer 1

Think this example will help you http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Persistence/ManyToMany