Is it ok to drop the foreign keys created by EJB 3 on the database?

[raminaa niilian]

Hi,

Can you please let me know what will happen if I delete the foreign keys created by EJb 3 in my database?

Thanks

[Jan Cumps]

raminaa niilian wrote:Hi,

Can you please let me know what will happen if I delete the foreign keys created by EJb 3 in my database?

Thanks

Drop the columns, or drop the constraints?

[raminaa niilian]

The constraint and not the columns.

Thanks

[alice zhu]

raminaa niilian wrote:
The constraint and not the columns.

Thanks

I'm not sure about the scenario. But if you drop the constraint, the jpa won't be able to retrieve the attribute as an instance of the entity the foreign key references. ie, entity A has an attribute person which is an int that references to the Id of entity Person. If the foreign key is lost, person will be an int instead of being an instance of Person. Is that what you mean?

[raminaa niilian]

alice zhu wrote:

raminaa niilian wrote:
The constraint and not the columns.

Thanks

I'm not sure about the scenario. But if you drop the constraint, the jpa won't be able to retrieve the attribute as an instance of the entity the foreign key references. ie, entity A has an attribute person which is an int that references to the Id of entity Person. If the foreign key is lost, person will be an int instead of being an instance of Person. Is that what you mean?

Do you mean that JPA uses the FK themselves to make multiplicity relations? I think they use the related database column to do that and not the FK itself. My doubt is that dropping the fks may cause other unexpected problems.