I am new to the Hibernate framework.

I have many to many relation in the database. I understand that an associatiion table will be created to store foreign keys. But, I think something has to be done if I use the Hibernate framework.

My question is what has to be done?

Thank you.

Hello,

You need to define a Hibernate mapping of the many to many association to a table structure. If you are unsing Hibernate annotations, this documentation should help :
http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/annotations/3.5/reference/en/html/entity.html#entity-mapping-association

If you are using hbm.cfg.xml see this section of the tutorial in the Hibernate reference docs, if you are new to Hibernate it would probably be worth you reading the whole tutorial section.

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.5/reference/en/html_single/#tutorial-associations-unidirset

and

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.5/reference/en/html_single/#collections-ofvalues

That should provide you with what you need to get started,

Kate.