How hibernate itself maintains a link table for many to many mapping, if i donot create a link table?

how would load that table , if i want to acces the associated classes?

any code example on this would be a great help....it's really urgent
i m using hibernate 2.1.

As far as I know, you need to create the many-to-many table to have any sort of many-to-many attributes. I also generally create a mapping in the XML and generate a POJO, though I'm not sure if this is necessary.

A two-column table with composite keys works (I've had issues trying to use tables with other columns, or with other primary keys).

-sara