jpa version cascade

Question

JSR 220: Enterprise JavaBeansTM,Version 3.0

section 3.4.2

paragraph 3

All non-relationship fields and properties and all relationships owned by the entity are included in version checks.

My Question: What does "owned by the entity" mean?

Answer 1

In two-sided relationships, one side "owns" the relationship, meaning that the corresponding table contains the foreign key. (It is the "many" side in many-to-one relationships, or the side where you don't specify the mappedBy attribute in all other kinds of relationships.)

You can find a detailed explanation in the Java EE tutorial's section on direction in entity relationships.