Hi All,
i am novice to hibernate.i came through one strange mapping file .can any one explain me about below mentioned red portion of mapping file.



<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC
"-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
"http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>

<class name="org.springframework.prospring.ticket.domain.Seat" table="Seat">

<cache usage="read-only"/>

<id name="id" type="long">
<column name="id"/>
<generator class="identity"/>
</id>

<property name="name" type="string">
<column name="name"/>
</property>

<many-to-one name="leftSide"
column="left_Seat_id"
cascade="none"
outer-join="false"
foreign-key="fk_left_Seat"
not-null="false"/>

<many-to-one name="rightSide"
column="right_Seat_id"
cascade="none"
outer-join="false"
foreign-key="fk_right_Seat"
not-null="false"/>

</class>

</hibernate-mapping>

The mappings are basically two many to one relationship mappings from seat table to leftside and rightside tables.

Hi ,
tanx for ur reply. actually i downloaded application named Boxoffice source code from from Appress website.In that i didnt find any classes with names leftside and right side.
My doubt is even in mapping file also they didnt mention class attribute attribute of< many- to- one> element. know. So , how can hibernate can detect the leftside and rightside tables.