I am a Hibernate newbie and still trying to figure out mapping questions.

I have a domain object Person with getter/setters for name, description etc.

This domain object has a method called
getParent(Person p)
Person setParent().

How can I show this relationship in the mapping file.

Just wondering if component or component-element would be a good choice.


Thanks,

You should use a one-to-many with inverse=true.

The Person object is related to a Person table :

1) PersonPk PK
2) ParentPerson Nulable allowed..

Each person can have a single or no parentperson

The parent which is also a person, will be retreived by the method

Person getParent()

and can be set by setParent(Person)

Would a one-to many apply in this scenario .?