Declare a foreign key for a unidirectional association in Hibernate

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Issue

  • In an existing database schema, a foreign key exists to manage an association between two tables / entities
  • The application design mandates that the entity / table which has the foreign key be the target of a unidirectional association.

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 7
    • 6
  • Hibernate
    • 5
    • 4

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