Mapping association in the same table

[Nobody/Anonymous]

Hello,
Firstable, a great thanks for the project team and the great work that they fulfilled. Good job guys.

I'm trying to use the Atomsframework in a Functional Analysis Tool (regarding european norm for the Functional Analysis methodology), that I will propose for the community, I'm sure that it could be a great help for solution design.
If someone want to participate for this future SourceForge Projet thanks to email me at : tlamak@yahoo.fr. Any participation will be welcome.

I have a question about mapping association in the same table.
I have a table VA_Function

- <class name="VA_FUNCTION" table="VA_FUNCTION" database="MICROSOF-SB7N5E">
  <attribute name="Internal_ref_number" column="Internal_ref_number" key="primary" />
  <attribute name="Function_number" column="Function_number" key="primary" />
  <attribute name="Description" column="Description" />
  <attribute name="Weight" column="Weight" />
  <attribute name="Number_of_descendant" column="Number_of_descendant" />
  <attribute name="Function_level" column="Function_level" />
  <attribute name="Type" column="Type" />
  <attribute name="Name" column="Name" />
  <attribute name="Father_ref" column="Father_ref" />
  <attribute name="Father_func" column="Father_func" />
  <attribute name="Sort" column="Sort" />
  </class>

As you can see a function father is linked to a child function in the same table with a reference back : "father_func" propriety.
I have no need of another table, it's a OneToMany association.
Should I add an association map in the mapping file ? in the two navigation possibilities ?
from the father function to a child function
and from child function to a father  function ?
Thanks for the answer.

[Richard Banks]

I've answered this in the forums on jcframework.sourceforge.net.

(Thanks for the positive feedback by the way - it's appreciated)