Hi,
I'm wondering what the best way is to map the common business situtation where a task for example, can have one category from a list menu and one priority from a list menu etc.

I see how this would work in the relational database, the task record would have a column that points to a primary key in the category table.

Using hibernate does the task object reference its category and priority by having actual instances of these objects or is there a better way of doing it? thanks.