I want some advice on mapping of the relationship between two entities.

The two entities are Organization and person. A person belongs to one organization and an organization has more than one person.

I can use manytoOne annotation and map the entities. However when i do that i add a new row of organiztion to the organization table whenever i add a person row to the person table.

for example i add a person called john to person table who belongs to Health organozation. here the health organization already exists in the organization table. So how can i add the person to the person table and not add an existing health organization to the organization.

also person table has a foreign key which refers to the primary key of organizaton table.

I will be glad if anyone could help me on this. thanks.

Try making mutable="false" in the class tag of the hibernate mapping file for the Organization

Make changes in the Organization mapping file, this should work


let me know if it works for u