Defining Master-Detail Pages

If two objects have a master-detail relationship, PowerDesigner renders them (create, update, delete and find methods) in the same page. When you click the detail link button column in the master table view, the detail page view in the same page will change dynamically.

For example, there is a table Orders (Master table) and a table Orderline (Detail table). The association is a composition. If you delete an order, the order lines should be deleted. They will be shown on the same page:



  1. Create a one-to-many association, where the one-to-many direction is navigable.
  2. Open the association property sheet, and click the JSF tab.
  3. Select the "Use Master-Detail Page" checkbox:


    The association type must be set to Composition or Aggregation, which means that one side of association is a weak-reference to the master class.

    The generated master-detail JSF page will resemble the following:



Parent topic: Generating JavaServer Faces (JSF) for Hibernate