[Hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (ANN-389) @ManyToMany without mappedBy should be recognized as an error

[Christopher G. S. II (JIRA) <no...@at...>]

    [ http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-389?page=comments#action_23575 ] 

Christopher G. Stach II commented on ANN-389:
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Okay, that makes complete sense.  So, basically, Hibernate is assuming that it has two unidirectional relationships instead of one bidirectional.  Thanks.

> @ManyToMany without mappedBy should be recognized as an error
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>
>          Key: ANN-389
>          URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-389
>      Project: Hibernate Annotations
>         Type: Bug

>   Components: binder
>     Versions: 3.2.0.cr1
>     Reporter: Christopher G. Stach II

>
>
> Instead of letting the user know that something might get hosed, it creates two join tables, one for each direction.  I don't know when this would be the preferred behavior.

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