Hello all

Im running web services behind JBoss. The stack has hibernate and we use it to derive object model from the relational model. When I have many to many relationships I try and use a bridging table on relational design usually, and when I reverse engineer the object model after that I have cyclic references in the object model hence when I try to send these objects back through JAX it results in the cycle detected saxexception. What Im wondering is, is the derived object model right? Or should I break relationship into many to one and one to many again but I cant see that solving the cyclic reference issue. Anyway I'm open to suggestions, it would be good to get some expert advice on this please. I would be glad to explain this a bit further too if needed.

Cheers

Any ideas guys? I'm kind of surprised to not find much on this subject on the internet. I guess I would have to write some DTOs on top of the domain model generated by reverse engineering to keep jax happy however that takes the primary need of hibernate to generate domain model away. Has any one found themselves in this situation? Or am I missing something really obvious?

Can anyone please give me some insights?