Hi,

I have an object A that defines an attribute that is a List<B>. The A class has an appropriate getter and setter for B.

e.g.
public List<B> getBList();
public void setBList(List<B> b);

In the database, A's backing table declares a foreign key column referencing the primary key of B's backing table. A many-to-one seems the most appropriate solution for me as I want a uni-directional association from A to B.

My mapping looks like:

<class>
...
...

<joined-subclass name="path.to.A"
table="object_a_backing_table"

<key column="object_a_pk_column"

<many-to-one name="bList"
column="object_b_pk_column"
cascade="none"
fetch="join"/>
</joined-subclass>

...
</class>

When I try to load hibernate in my app context I get the following error :

"org.hibernate.MappingException: An association from the table object_a_backing_table refers to an unmapped class: 'java.util.List'"

I also tried adding the class="java.util.List" attribute on the many-to-one declaration but that failed too.

How do I do a many-to-one mapping? Is a hibernate many-to-one even appropriate for what I am trying to do?

Thanks In Advance!

Please disregard. I revisited my object graph and realized that one-to-many was what is needed here.