Managing Relationships
There are some interesting semantics concerning how relationships between entity beans are maintained. First of all, it should be clear by now that the only ways to update a relationship defined by a CMR field are to use the associated set method or operate on the collection returned by the get method. What’s interesting to look at is that the behavior of a CMR field set method is different depending on the multiplicity of the relationship.
In the case of a one-to-many relationship, an entity object that is one of the targets of the relationship can, by definition, only be associated with a single source entity. For example, a one-to-many relationship between a CustomerBean and an OrderBean implies that an order is related ...
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