Hi I am new to Hibernate (shock eh?) anyway I have been reading all about the parent-child relationships etc, but I can't quite figure out how to implement what I want.
Example:

Customer Class:
(customer information)
public SalesRegion region;

SalesRegion Class:
(information about that salesregion)

What I'd like is my customer class to have a link to the salesregion. However I don't really need the salesregion to hold a link to all the customers associated with it. How would I set this up? Would it be a one-to-one in customer class, and no link at all in the salesregion class?

thanks in advance!
-David

Ok I think I solved it.

Within my Customer class i set:

<many-to-one name="region">

and my customer class has getter/setters for SalesRegion region;

Both would work. You'll have less constraints than with one-to-one.