Chapter 8. Advanced entity association mappings
In this chapter
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Mapping one-to-one entity associations
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One-to-many mapping options
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Many-to-many and ternary entity relationships
In the previous chapter, we demonstrated a unidirectional many-to-one association, made it bidirectional, and finally enabled transitive state changes with cascading options. One reason we discuss more advanced entity mappings in a separate chapter is that we consider quite a few of them rare, or at least optional. It’s possible to only use component mappings and many-to-one (occasionally one-to-one) entity associations. You can write a sophisticated application without ever mapping a collection! We’ve shown the particular benefits you gain from collection mappings ...
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