Hello,

I've searched the documentation and forums and haven't yet found an answer to my question. Sorry if it has been posted already.

I'm wondering how to tell hibernate code generation which side of a many-to-many link "owns" the association. In other words which side should be "inverse=false" and which should be "inverse=true". I am reverse engineering the .hbm.xml files and POJOs from the JDBC connection specified in my hibernate.cfg.xml file. As of now the code generation makes both "inverse=false".

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks,
Mike

Hi,

I had a similar problem and implemented an org.hibernate.cfg.reveng.ReverseEngineeringStrategy, especially its isForeignKeyCollectionInverse method (see http://docs.jboss.org/tools/2.1.0.Beta1/hibernatetools/html_single/#custom-reveng-strategy). You could check whether the second parameter of the isForeignKeyCollectionInverse method is a many-to-many table (via isManyToManyTable()) and further apply your own criteria.

Cheers, Frank