JPA Self Join using JoinTable

Question

I have 1 entity call Item in which I want to be able to link parent items to children. to use a join table to create a parent/child relationship. I haven\'t been able to g

Answer 1

After a lot of reading on JPA 2.0 I figured out that I needed a newer version of Eclipselink 2.3+ in order to support what I was trying to do. Here is the code that actually worked in my case, but it will not work due to our dependency on an older version [EclipseLink 2.0.2]. Also another project's is still using Toplink-essentials JPA 1.0 which again does like this notation.

public class Item {

@ManyToOne(optional = true, fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
@JoinTable(name = "ITEMINCENTIVESMAPPING", 
        joinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "INCENTIVEITEMID", referencedColumnName = "ITEMID", insertable = false, updatable = false) }, 
        inverseJoinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "ITEMID", referencedColumnName = "ITEMID", insertable = false, updatable = false) } )
private Item parentItem;

@OneToMany(fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
@JoinTable(name = "ITEMINCENTIVESMAPPING", 
        joinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "INCENTIVEITEMID", referencedColumnName = "ITEMID") }, 
        inverseJoinColumns = { @JoinColumn(name = "ITEMID", referencedColumnName = "ITEMID") } )
private List items;

}