It should work either way.
-marina
jeff wrote On 03/14/07 14:14,:
> thanks marina, i did see that.
>
> then i think my question becomes: is it necessary to have a
> bidirectional relationship to affect this behavior?
>
> thanks.
>
> */Marina Vatkina <Marina.Vatkina_at_Sun.COM>/* wrote:
>
> Look at the orderapp in the JavaEE tutorial - it has orders and
> lineitems with
> overlapping PK/FK mapping. This is most probably what you need.
>
> regards,
> -marina
>
> jeff wrote On 03/14/07 11:25,:
> > in a one to many (or 1-1) relationship, i want the many's ID to
> > incorporate it's one's ID.
> >
> > for example, if a have a Computer that has Ports. each port has a
> type,
> > say "USB", "serial", etc. furthermore, say i can only have one of each
> > type of port in a particular Computer.
> >
> > many Computers can have a Ports of the same type. how do i represent
> > this? what is the ID for Port? the type is enough to ID it within the
> > Computer, but i don't know how to represent this in JP. i think i want
> > the Port's ID to incorporate the Computer's ID.
> >
> > in the database, i think this would mean that the table for Port has a
> > foreign key pointing back to the the ID column of the table for
> Computer.
> >
> > i hope this makes sense.
> > thanks!
> >
> >
> >
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