hibernate many-to-many

[Larry Jones]

how do you delete and update a many-to-many relationship in hibernate without deleting the two related objects from the db; that is, I just want to remove the entry in the many-to-many table that joins the two objects, not the two objects themselves.

Thanks for the help

[Bear Bibeault]

Moved to ORM.

[David Harkness]

I haven't used many-to-many relationships with Hibernate yet, but I can make an educated guess.

Load one of the objects (A).

Find the other object (B) in A's collection of Bs.

Remove B from the collection.

Save A.

I don't think you'll need to do the same from the other side, or if it depends on whether or not it's an inverse association, or if N:N relations can even be inverse.