Java Hibernate Cookbook

Persisting List

List is an interface provided by Java and accessed from java.util.List that has the capability to store a sequence of elements, allow duplicate elements, and contain elements of the same type. Some classes that implement the List interface are java.util.ArrayList, java.util.LinkedList, and so on. Now, let's look at how to use List while using hibernate.

Getting ready

Here, we consider a new table structure for employee, and each employee has multiple e-mail addresses. So, we create an Employee class that has the List<String> field e-mails called list of e-mail addresses. Here, we use the List class for this recipe. To achieve this, we need to create classes and tables; so, first of all, let's meet the basic prerequisites.

Creating ...