if you take a tree shaped forum, like slashdot for example, rather than this one, the data structure which contains the messages would have to be treelike to some extent with nodes and parents and children.

what would be the best way to be implement this kind of data structure in hibernate, would hibernate even be an appropriate tool to use? every time you showed a page you would have to do a load of recursive calls to build up the tree- would hibernate be able to do this effieicently.

thanks for your thoughts.

does anyone have a clue where i can even start finding out about this.

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