I am having the same problems of how to do this. However, I do not
like Jason's solution because it seems as if I would get the book data
back even if I wanted the author data only.

On Jan 12, 5:58 pm, "Jason (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you're using JDO, then just as Juan said, you can fetch the author's
> books when you fetch the author entities themselves. Just make sure to
> specify that the books field is in the default fetch group:
>
> @Persistent(defaultFetchGroup = "true")
> private List<Book> books;
>
> //...
>
> public List<Book> getBooks() {
>   return books;
>
> }
>
> - Jason
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Juan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Are you using JDO/JPA? or querying thru GQL?
>
> > in the first case, make sure you eager fetch de book collection when
> > retrieving the object form DB. second case... just follow Bert´s
> > suggestion
>
> > On Jan 10, 7:40 pm, fhucho <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi, sorry for beginner question. I have authors and books in the
> > > database. Every author has list of books in a one to many owned
> > > relationship. I know the author's name, how can I retrieve the author
> > > and his books from database? I know how to get the author but not his
> > > books (Author.books).
>
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