I am looking for a complete example about table with self association. I solved soon my problem because I did this: every time an user click on node, I load the direct sub-nodes. If I need the entire tree, I did a recursive call from the been. I am wondering if exist some way to bring the full tree at once. I found two links witch sugests this possibility, but I need a whole example with anotations and the been for searching, deleting, updating and include.

The only things I found are these links, but no enough for me.
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http://www.tikalk.com/java/load-a-tree- ... -hibernate

Thanks.