Hi,
I have a simple global status field in many of my entity classes (for example, User, UserGroup, Organisation) that should be either set to "LIVE","DEAD" OR "SUSPENDED". One way I could implement this is just using a string field in each of the classes. However, I would prefer to record an entities state using an id (eg id_status) which would be a foreign key to a status table with 3 entries for "LIVE","DEAD" OR "SUSPENDED". Is it possible to have multiple many to one mappings from several classes that point to a single class?


public class GlobalStatus {
private Long idGlobalStatus;
private String name;
...
}


public class User {
private Long idUser;
private String email;
private GlobalStatus status;
...

}

public class UserGroup {
private Long idUserGroup;
private String name;
private GlobalStatus status;
...

}

I think it;s better to use enum