Many to Many Mapping-

Many to many mapping means that multiple rows in a table can be mapped to
multiple rows in another table.

User Table Nominee Table

Id(PK) Id(PK)

Name Name

Email

User_Nominee table

User_id(FK)

Nominee_id(FK)

User.Java

package com.test;

import java.util.*;

import javax.persistence.CascadeType;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.FetchType;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.ManyToMany;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name = "user")
public class User {

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
@Column(name = "user_id")
 private int id;
@Column(name = "name")
private String name;
@Column(name = "email")
private String email;

@ManyToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)

private List<Nominee> nomineeList = new ArrayList<Nominee>();

public int getId() {

return id;
}

public void setId(int id) {

this.id = id;
}

public String getName() {

return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {

this.name = name;
}

public String getEmail() {

return email;
}

public void setEmail(String email) {

this.email = email;
}

public List<Nominee> getNomineeList() {

return nomineeList;
}

public void setNomineeList(List<Nominee> nomineeList) {

this.nomineeList = nomineeList;
}

}
Nominee.Java

package com.test;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.persistence.Column;
import javax.persistence.Entity;
import javax.persistence.GeneratedValue;
import javax.persistence.GenerationType;
import javax.persistence.Id;
import javax.persistence.ManyToMany;
import javax.persistence.Table;

@Entity
@Table(name = "nominee")
public class Nominee {

@Id
@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
@Column(name = "nominee_id")
private int id;

@Column(name = "name")
private String name;

@ManyToMany(mappedBy = "nomineeList")
private List<User> userList = new ArrayList<User>();

public int getId() {

return id;
}

public void setId(int id) {

this.id = id;
}

public String getName() {

return name;
}

public void setName(String name) {

this.name = name;
}

public List<User> getUserList() {

 return userList;
}

public void setUserList(List<User> userList) {

this.userList = userList;
}

}
Test.Java

package com.test;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.Transaction;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;

public class Test {

public static void main(String[] args) {

Configuration configuration = new Configuration();

configuration.configure("hibernate.cfg.xml"); //load the
file

SessionFactory sessionFactory =
configuration.buildSessionFactory();
Session session=sessionFactory.openSession();

Transaction t= session.beginTransaction();

User user1= new User();

user1.setName("mohit");
user1.setEmail("mohit@gmail.com");

User user2= new User();

user2.setName("ajay");
user2.setEmail("ajay@gmail.com");

Nominee nominee1= new Nominee();

nominee1.setName("Sagar");

Nominee nominee2= new Nominee();

nominee2.setName("Santosh");

Nominee nominee3= new Nominee();

nominee3.setName("madan");
 user1.getNomineeList().add(nominee1);
user1.getNomineeList().add(nominee2);
user1.getNomineeList().add(nominee3);

nominee1.getUserList().add(user1);
nominee2.getUserList().add(user1);
nominee3.getUserList().add(user1);

user2.getNomineeList().add(nominee2);
user2.getNomineeList().add(nominee3);

nominee2.getUserList().add(user2);
nominee3.getUserList().add(user2);

session.persist(user1);
session.persist(user2);

t.commit();
session.close();
sessionFactory.close();

}
}

Hibernate.cfg.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration SYSTEM
"classpath://org/hibernate/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>

<property
name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</proper
ty>
<property
name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sample</pr
operty>
<property
name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
<property
name="hibernate.connection.password">root</property>
 <property
name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
<property name="show_sql">true</property>

<mapping class="com.test.User"></mapping>
<mapping class="com.test.Nominee"></mapping>

</session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>map</groupId>
<artifactId>ManytoManyMapping</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
<version>4.3.5.Final</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>mysql</groupId>
<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
<version>8.0.21</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

Output

User table
Nominee table

User_Nominee table