I have a Car table and a Person table.

Car-table
-----------
car_id
licence_plate

Person-table
---------------
person_id
name


One person can own many cars. And one car can be owned by one person, or by two (or more) persons together. So I make an association table (link-table, xref-table) like this:

Car_Person-table
--------------------
car_id
person_id

I want to keep track of former owners of a car if the car is sold from one person to another. How do I do that? Perhaps by putting in start and end date into the Car_Person-table?

Car_Person-table
--------------------
car_id
person_id
start_date
end_date

How do I map this in Hibernate and what would the Java-classes look like?