jpa Many to Many Mapping Employee to Project Many to Many mapping

Example

Employee entity.

package com.thejavageek.jpa.entities;

import java.util.List;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.JoinColumn;
import javax.persistence.JoinTable;
import javax.persistence.ManyToMany;
import javax.persistence.TableGenerator;

@Entity
public class Employee {

    @TableGenerator(name = "employee_gen", table = "id_gen", pkColumnName = "gen_name", valueColumnName = "gen_val", allocationSize = 100)
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.TABLE, generator = "employee_gen")
    private int idemployee;
    private String name;

    @ManyToMany(cascade = CascadeType.PERSIST)
    @JoinTable(name = "employee_project", joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "idemployee"), inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "idproject"))
    private List<Project> projects;

    public int getIdemployee() {
        return idemployee;
    }

    public void setIdemployee(int idemployee) {
        this.idemployee = idemployee;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public List<Project> getProjects() {
        return projects;
    }

    public void setProjects(List<Project> projects) {
        this.projects = projects;
    }

}

Project Entity:

package com.thejavageek.jpa.entities;

import java.util.List;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.ManyToMany;
import javax.persistence.TableGenerator;

@Entity
public class Project {

    @TableGenerator(name = "project_gen", allocationSize = 1, pkColumnName = "gen_name", valueColumnName = "gen_val", table = "id_gen")
    @Id
    @GeneratedValue(generator = "project_gen", strategy = GenerationType.TABLE)
    private int idproject;
    private String name;

    @ManyToMany(mappedBy = "projects", cascade = CascadeType.PERSIST)
    private List<Employee> employees;

    public int getIdproject() {
        return idproject;
    }

    public void setIdproject(int idproject) {
        this.idproject = idproject;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public List<Employee> getEmployees() {
        return employees;
    }

    public void setEmployees(List<Employee> employees) {
        this.employees = employees;
    }

}

Test Code

/* Create EntityManagerFactory */ EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence .createEntityManagerFactory("JPAExamples");

    /* Create EntityManager */
    EntityManager em = emf.createEntityManager();

    EntityTransaction transaction = em.getTransaction();

    transaction.begin();

    Employee prasad = new Employee();
    prasad.setName("prasad kharkar");

    Employee harish = new Employee();
    harish.setName("Harish taware");

    Project ceg = new Project();
    ceg.setName("CEG");

    Project gtt = new Project();
    gtt.setName("GTT");

    List<Project> projects = new ArrayList<Project>();
    projects.add(ceg);
    projects.add(gtt);

    List<Employee> employees = new ArrayList<Employee>();
    employees.add(prasad);
    employees.add(harish);

    ceg.setEmployees(employees);
    gtt.setEmployees(employees);

    prasad.setProjects(projects);
    harish.setProjects(projects);

    em.persist(prasad);

    transaction.commit();