How to add list of Strings to entity - Spring, Hibernate

Question

I have Spring Boot project with DB. I've already get table, let's call it "People". I need to add a second table "People_Strings" with two columns: People_id and String. I need to include many strings for every row from People.

How can I map it in my People entity in project?

Edit: I need to do this without creating separete class for String or for People_Strings

Answer 1

If you only need that, you can add the following property to the People entity class:

@ElementCollection
public List<String> strings;