In the documentation it is recommendet to use a jointable for one to many mappings instead of a join column.

What is the reasoning behind this? Because from a dbDesign POV I'd recommend just the opposit!


Dokumentation referenced:
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/annot ... ml_single/

Quote:
2.2.5.3.2.2. Unidirectional

A unidirectional one to many using a foreign key column in the owned entity is not that common and not really recommended. We strongly advise you to use a join table for this kind of association (as explained in the next section). This kind of association is described through a @JoinColumn
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Thanx for clarification.

On the one to may side, this is a very strange situation, and it really doesn't sit well from a database perspective. However, this is not true for the opposite situation. With the many-to-one mapping, using a column is fine.