Hello all,
I am extremely new to Hibernate.

I have a many-to-many relationship called PersonAddressLink between Person and Address entities as follows:
Person(person_id, other attributes) ---PersonAddressLink(person_id,address_id)-----Address(address_id, other attributes)

I was able to successfully map this relationship using Hibernate
in two persistent classes Person and Address. In Person, I have addresses List to store all the associated address of a Person.

I am able to successfully retrieve all the addresses associated with a Person.

In my database, if I want to assign a person to a new address, I would do something like:
update PersonAddressLink set address_id = 'new_address_id' where person_id='person_id' and address_id='old_address_id'

How can I do the same using hibernate? (I will be provided person_id,old_address_id,new_address_id)
I was thinking of doing something like:
- Load Person instance
- Get Address list
- In that Address list, remove old Address using List.remove(oldAddressObject)
- In that Address list, add new Address using List.add(newAddressObject)
- Make the Address list persistent

Can you please suggest how it can be done using hibernate?

Your suggestions would be highly appreciated.

If I make the Address list persistent, then will it automatically update the PersonAddress table in the database?

Thank you very much.