Hibernar asociación recursiva de muchos a muchos con la misma entidad

En realidad es muy simple y podría lograrse siguiendo decir que tiene la siguiente entidad

public class Human {
    int id;
    short age;
    String name;
    List<Human> relatives;



    public int getId() {
        return id;
    }
    public void setId(int id) {
        this.id = id;
    }
    public short getAge() {
        return age;
    }
    public void setAge(short age) {
        this.age = age;
    }
    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }
    public List<Human> getRelatives() {
        return relatives;
    }
    public void setRelatives(List<Human> relatives) {
        this.relatives = relatives;
    }

    public void addRelative(Human relative){
        if(relatives == null)
            relatives = new ArrayList<Human>();
        relatives.add(relative);
    }




}

HBM para same:

<hibernate-mapping>
    <class name="org.know.july31.hb.Human" table="Human">
        <id name="id" type="java.lang.Integer">
            <column name="H_ID" />
            <generator class="increment" />
        </id>
        <property name="age" type="short">
            <column name="age" />
        </property>
        <property name="name" type="string">
            <column name="NAME" length="200"/>
        </property>
        <list name="relatives" table="relatives" cascade="all">
         <key column="H_ID"/>
         <index column="U_ID"/>
         <many-to-many class="org.know.july31.hb.Human" column="relation"/>
      </list>
    </class>
</hibernate-mapping>

Y caso de prueba

import org.junit.Test;
import org.know.common.HBUtil;
import org.know.july31.hb.Human;

public class SimpleTest {

    @Test
    public void test() {
        Human h1 = new Human();
        short s = 23;
        h1.setAge(s);
        h1.setName("Ratnesh Kumar singh");
        Human h2 = new Human();
        h2.setAge(s);
        h2.setName("Praveen Kumar singh");
        h1.addRelative(h2);
        Human h3 = new Human();
        h3.setAge(s);
        h3.setName("Sumit Kumar singh");
        h2.addRelative(h3);
        Human dk = new Human();
        dk.setAge(s);
        dk.setName("D Kumar singh");
        h3.addRelative(dk);
        HBUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().beginTransaction();
        HBUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().save(h1);
        HBUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().getTransaction().commit();
        HBUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().beginTransaction();
        h1 = (Human)HBUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().load(Human.class, 1);
        System.out.println(h1.getRelatives().get(0).getName());

        HBUtil.shutdown();
    }

}

La respuesta aceptada parece demasiado complicada con las @JoinTable anotaciones. Una implementación ligeramente más simple solo necesita un mappedBy. Usar mappedBy indica el poseedor Entity, o propiedad, que probablemente debería ser el referencesTo ya que eso sería considerado los "amigos". Una relación ManyToMany puede crear un gráfico muy complicado. Usando mappedBy hace el código así:

@Entity
public class Recursion {
    @Id @GeneratedValue
    private Integer id;
    // what entities does this entity reference?
    @ManyToMany
    private Set<Recursion> referencesTo;
    // what entities is this entity referenced from?
    @ManyToMany(mappedBy="referencesTo")
    private Set<Recursion> referencesFrom;
    public Recursion init() {
        referencesTo = new HashSet<>();
        return this;
    }
    // getters, setters
}

Y para usarlo debe considerar que la propiedad propietaria es la referencesTo. Solo necesitas poner relaciones en eso. propiedad para que sean referenciados. Cuando lees un Entity de vuelta, asumiendo que haces un fetch join, JPA creará las colecciones para el resultado. Cuando eliminas una Entidad, JPA borrará todas las referencias a ella.

tx.begin();
Recursion r0 = new Recursion().init();
Recursion r1 = new Recursion().init();
Recursion r2 = new Recursion().init();
r0.getReferencesTo().add(r1);
r1.getReferencesTo().add(r2);
em.persist(r0);
em.persist(r1);
em.persist(r2);

tx.commit();
// required so that existing entities with null referencesFrom will be removed from cache.
em.clear();
for ( int i=1; i <= 3; ++i ) {
    Recursion r = em.createQuery("select distinct r from Recursion r left join fetch r.referencesTo left join fetch r.referencesFrom where id = :id", Recursion.class).setParameter("id",  i).getSingleResult();
    System.out.println(r + " To=" + Arrays.toString(r.getReferencesTo().toArray()) + " From=" + Arrays.toString(r.getReferencesFrom().toArray()) );
}
tx.begin();
em.createQuery("delete from Recursion where id = 2").executeUpdate();
tx.commit();
// required so that existing entities with referencesTo will be removed from cache.
em.clear();
Recursion r = em.createQuery("select distinct r from Recursion r left join fetch r.referencesTo left join fetch r.referencesFrom where id = :id", Recursion.class).setParameter("id",  1).getSingleResult();
System.out.println(r + " To=" + Arrays.toString(r.getReferencesTo().toArray()) + " From=" + Arrays.toString(r.getReferencesFrom().toArray()) );

Que da la siguiente salida de registro (siempre verifique las instrucciones SQL generadas):

Hibernate: create table Recursion (id integer not null, primary key (id))
Hibernate: create table Recursion_Recursion (referencesFrom_id integer not null, referencesTo_id integer not null, primary key (referencesFrom_id, referencesTo_id))
Hibernate: create sequence hibernate_sequence start with 1 increment by 1
Hibernate: alter table Recursion_Recursion add constraint FKsi0wfuwfs0bl19jjpofw4n8pt foreign key (referencesTo_id) references Recursion
Hibernate: alter table Recursion_Recursion add constraint FKarrkuyh2v1j5qnlui2vbpl7tk foreign key (referencesFrom_id) references Recursion
Hibernate: call next value for hibernate_sequence
Hibernate: call next value for hibernate_sequence
Hibernate: call next value for hibernate_sequence
Hibernate: insert into Recursion (id) values (?)
Hibernate: insert into Recursion (id) values (?)
Hibernate: insert into Recursion (id) values (?)
Hibernate: insert into Recursion_Recursion (referencesFrom_id, referencesTo_id) values (?, ?)
Hibernate: insert into Recursion_Recursion (referencesFrom_id, referencesTo_id) values (?, ?)
Hibernate: select distinct recursion0_.id as id1_2_0_, recursion2_.id as id1_2_1_, recursion4_.id as id1_2_2_, references1_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_0__, references1_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_0__, references3_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_1__, references3_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_1__ from Recursion recursion0_ left outer join Recursion_Recursion references1_ on recursion0_.id=references1_.referencesFrom_id left outer join Recursion recursion2_ on references1_.referencesTo_id=recursion2_.id left outer join Recursion_Recursion references3_ on recursion0_.id=references3_.referencesTo_id left outer join Recursion recursion4_ on references3_.referencesFrom_id=recursion4_.id where id=?
model.Recursion@7bdf6bb7 To=[model.Recursion@1bc53649] From=[]
Hibernate: select distinct recursion0_.id as id1_2_0_, recursion2_.id as id1_2_1_, recursion4_.id as id1_2_2_, references1_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_0__, references1_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_0__, references3_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_1__, references3_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_1__ from Recursion recursion0_ left outer join Recursion_Recursion references1_ on recursion0_.id=references1_.referencesFrom_id left outer join Recursion recursion2_ on references1_.referencesTo_id=recursion2_.id left outer join Recursion_Recursion references3_ on recursion0_.id=references3_.referencesTo_id left outer join Recursion recursion4_ on references3_.referencesFrom_id=recursion4_.id where id=?
model.Recursion@1bc53649 To=[model.Recursion@42deb43a] From=[model.Recursion@7bdf6bb7]
Hibernate: select distinct recursion0_.id as id1_2_0_, recursion2_.id as id1_2_1_, recursion4_.id as id1_2_2_, references1_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_0__, references1_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_0__, references3_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_1__, references3_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_1__ from Recursion recursion0_ left outer join Recursion_Recursion references1_ on recursion0_.id=references1_.referencesFrom_id left outer join Recursion recursion2_ on references1_.referencesTo_id=recursion2_.id left outer join Recursion_Recursion references3_ on recursion0_.id=references3_.referencesTo_id left outer join Recursion recursion4_ on references3_.referencesFrom_id=recursion4_.id where id=?
model.Recursion@42deb43a To=[] From=[model.Recursion@1bc53649]
Hibernate: delete from Recursion_Recursion where (referencesTo_id) in (select id from Recursion where id=2)
Hibernate: delete from Recursion_Recursion where (referencesFrom_id) in (select id from Recursion where id=2)
Hibernate: delete from Recursion where id=2
Hibernate: select distinct recursion0_.id as id1_2_0_, recursion2_.id as id1_2_1_, recursion4_.id as id1_2_2_, references1_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_0__, references1_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_0__, references3_.referencesTo_id as referenc2_3_1__, references3_.referencesFrom_id as referenc1_3_1__ from Recursion recursion0_ left outer join Recursion_Recursion references1_ on recursion0_.id=references1_.referencesFrom_id left outer join Recursion recursion2_ on references1_.referencesTo_id=recursion2_.id left outer join Recursion_Recursion references3_ on recursion0_.id=references3_.referencesTo_id left outer join Recursion recursion4_ on references3_.referencesFrom_id=recursion4_.id where id=?
model.Recursion@6b739528 To=[] From=[]