On 14/09/2013, at 1:59 PM, Theodore Petrosky <[email protected]> wrote:

> I want to have an entity  Person with a to-many to address. a Person could 
> have many addresses (home, second home, weekend place, love nest). 

Sounds fair.  You could model address types with an enum using the javaEnum 
prototype, for example.

> And I have clients. a Client needs addresses too (billing, main office, act 
> rep, etc)
> 
> how would you model this? 
> 
> a person entity with a to-many relationship to address
> a client entity with a to-many relationship to address
> 
> or would you create a subclass of address and map that to the clients.

Going on just what you've described, I see no reason to subclass Address.  Even 
if the Address types for each are mutually exclusive (e.g. a Person wouldn't 
have a billing address, and a Client wouldn't have a weekend address), you 
could model that by having Person and Client know which enums they were allowed 
to accept.

> is it 'bad' to have two to-many relations to an entity, (both person, and 
> client mapped to entity address).

No.


-- 
Paul Hoadley
http://logicsquad.net/



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