I have the following two persistent classes representing tables:

public class Item {
private int id;
private String item;
private String description;
private List components;
}

public class ItemComponents {
private int id;
private String parentItem;
private String componentItem;
private double quantityPerUnit;
}

I want to establish an association as follows (I will use SQL syntax:)
select * from ItemComponents
where ItemComponents.parentItem=Item.item

If tried the following mapping, but it does not work properly:

<class name "domain.Item" table="Item">
<id name="id" column="id" type="int">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>
<property name="item" type="string" column="item"/>
<property name="description" type="string" column="description"/>
<list name="components" table="ItemComponent">
<key column="item"/>
<one-to-many class="domain.ItemComponent" column="parentItem"/>
</list>
</class>

I assume this kind of association can be defined in Hibernate. What is the proper syntax?

Thank you

Ive been working on a similar type of project

Word of advice, switch to using annotations instead of wasting time with the XML files