Just need some clarification here, so I don't think source is necessary.

Let's say i have a parent -child relationship, that are many to many in my object model. Typically, the database will use 3 tables to resolve this many-many relationship. I have effectively used hibernate so that I can make this happen, but I am wondering if it is possible for the "intersection" table to have additional fields that I can somehow update, without having an associated entity mapped class for them.

I am asking because our DB folks typically add fields for "last updated, creation date, updatesource, userid" to these intersection tables, which means I have to clutter my object model with the interim object.

I have considered using the interceptor class, but that seems more geared to setting fields on entity classes, which in this case, there is no such class.

Thanks
James

No it is not possible to update any database fields without mapping them somewhere.

No and it's a pity :(
But you can add a new unmapped getter to hide this ugly entity.