Question about embedded list of Strings

[Gul Onural]

Let say I have an entity MyEntity. The MyEntity has a list of strings
inside.

@Entity
@Table(name = "TABLE_A")
public class MyEntity implements Serializable {
      @Id
      private int myId;
      private String myName;
      private List<String> myList;
}

- How does openjpa stores instances of this class in the database? For
example does it create 
  one table and one record for each String in the myList ? 

- What would be the behavior of the openjpa if I put OneToMany
relationship annotation to the myList.
  I know what it does if the type of item in the list is a user-defined
class, but I don't know what happens if the items are Strings.

- What does openjpa do if I say this.myList = null; Does this remove all
the existing records ?

Thanks

Gul