Thanks for your quick response. Your solution would help if I could recreate
the db schema, but for the matter of fact the schema is as it is :-(
With your solution I would have to add new foreign keys to cocktail and
ingredient. And a new primary key to the "many to many relation with attributes
class".

Are there any other solutions for the problem?

TIA Elmar

> 
> Typical Object/Relational impedance mismatch :
> Many to many mapping is a way to map three tables to only two
> classes. Columns from COCKTAIL are mapped to Cocktail attributes,
> columns from INGREDIENT are mapped to Ingredient attributes, but where
> do you handle COCKTAIL_INGREDIENT columns ?
> => you need another class
> => it is not a many to many relation
> 
> I would suggest using two 1-n relations and three classes.
> 
> Hope this helps...
> 

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