At a certain point in your Java career, it is inevitable to arrive at a point where you have models that are related to each other but cannot be solved with foreign keys. A good example of a many-to-many relationships is the relationship between rice and sauces. I love ALL…

One-to-many relationships are used when a single entity is associated with many other entities. For example, a Blog can have many associated Posts, BUT each Post is only associated with one Blog. This simply means you map child entities (Posts) as a collection in the parent object (Blogs). Spring Data…