"AnnotationException: mappedBy reference an unknown target entity property" in Hibernate
Issue
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The exception below is raised while deploying a persistence unit:
... org.hibernate.AnnotationException: mappedBy reference an unknown target entity property: org.mypackage.ManySide.oneside in org.mypackage.OneSide.manySides at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.CollectionBinder.bindStarToManySecondPass(CollectionBinder.java:708) at org.hibernate.cfg.annotations.CollectionBinder$1.secondPass(CollectionBinder.java:668) at org.hibernate.cfg.CollectionSecondPass.doSecondPass(CollectionSecondPass.java:66) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.originalSecondPassCompile(Configuration.java:1605) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.secondPassCompile(Configuration.java:1363) at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1749) at org.hibernate.ejb.EntityManagerFactoryImpl.<init>(EntityManagerFactoryImpl.java:94) at org.hibernate.ejb.Ejb3Configuration.buildEntityManagerFactory(Ejb3Configuration.java:920) ... -
The entity classes have been defined as follows
@Entity public class OneSide { ... @OneToMany(mappedBy = "oneside" ...) private List<ManySide> manySides; ... } @Entity @Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.SINGLE_TABLE) @DiscriminatorColumn(...) public abstract class Parent { ... @ManyToOne @JoinColumn(name = "COMMENT_ID") protected OneSide oneside; ... } @Entity public class ManySide extends Parent implements Serializable { ... }
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 5
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- Hibernate
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