Relationships (One-to-Many, Many-to-Many) — Roadmap Step & Resources
Modeling associations between entities and managing cascade/fetch behavior
- Level: intermediate
- Estimated time: 2 days
- Roadmap: Java + Spring Boot
Before this step
Interview questions
- What's the difference between FetchType.LAZY and FetchType.EAGER, and why does it matter?
Study resources
- JPA Relationship Mapping (Article) — Baeldung's comprehensive guide to modeling one-to-many and many-to-many relationships in JPA.
- JPA Entity Relationships Explained (Video) — Covers FetchType.LAZY vs EAGER and managing cascade behavior.
Part of
- Data Persistence with Spring Data JPA — section
- Java + Spring Boot roadmap — the full learning path