Peter Shillan wrote: > Putting in a <column-name> here may make the relationship OK but if I do
> this, I have no way of creating a Message bean as it requires a Message > bean to be there as it's parent. I'm not sure what you are trying to do here, but it sounds like you want a not null foreign-key or a foreign-key in the priamry-key. Neither of these are supported currently (i.e., they don't work). Support will be added in the future, but it is not as easy as you would think. > So this leads me to the question again: is it possible to have an Entity > Bean that can be in a relationship with its own type? Perhaps there is a > way to fudge a 'root' bean by using a direct database insert where it's > parent is itself and then use this Bean as the parent to all other root > Beans? Yes an entity can have a relationship with itself (I have a test case for this), but you can have a not null relationship. -dain _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user