Annotations based JPA entity persistence using Hibernate snippet

vanilla-jpa-persistence-annotations-hibernate.java

@Entity
public class Recipe implements Serializable {
	@Id
	@GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.AUTO)	
	private Long id;

	private String name;

	@Column(name = "brew_notes")
	private String brewNotes;

	private Timestamp start;

	private Timestamp end;

	@Column(name = "taste_notes")
	private String tasteNotes;

	@OneToMany(cascade = {CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE}, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
	@JoinTable(name = "recipe_hops",
		  joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "recipe_id"),
		  inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "hop_id")
	)
	private Set<Hop> hops = new HashSet<Hop>();

	@OneToMany(cascade = {CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE}, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
	@JoinTable(name = "recipe_malts",
		  joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "recipe_id"),
		  inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "malt_id")
	)
	private Set<Malt> malts = new HashSet<Malt>();

	@ManyToOne(cascade = {CascadeType.PERSIST, CascadeType.MERGE}, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
	private Yeast yeast;

/** snip **/