JPA many to many with extra column

Question

I have a following problem that I need to solve. The core issues is that I want to add additional column into JoinTable for ManyToMany relation in JPA. In my case I have fol

Answer 1

I would try to avoid using a List unless you allow duplicates.

There is a @OrderColumn annotation that automatically does this. Have you tried it?

@Entity
public class Topic {
 @Id
 private Long id;
 @Basic
 private String name;

 @OneToMany
 @OrderColumn
 private Set association;
}