Spring Data JPA | JPA Relationships

Mastering JPA relationships: practical examples of bidirectional associations

From One-To-One to Many-To-Many, with practical examples of bidirectional associations

Ivan Franchin
JavaToDev
Published in
7 min readJun 13, 2023

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In this article, we will explore the implementation of JPA relationships using practical examples rather than going into extensive explanations as we have done in this series of articles.

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Our focus here will be on providing straightforward cases and demonstrating the corresponding code implementations.

So, let’s get started!

One-to-One with Simple Primary Key

Use Case

  • A Team can have zero or one associated TeamDetail, while each TeamDetail exclusively belongs to one Team.
  • Both the Team and TeamDetail entities require numeric primary keys with auto-increment functionality.
  • The association between Team and TeamDetail should…

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Ivan Franchin
JavaToDev

Lead Software Developer with BS and MS in Computer Science. Writing about Java, Spring, software development in general, and emerging technologies.