We are new to JPA and trying to setup a very simple one to many relationship where a pojo called Message can have a list of integer group id's defined by a join table called GROUP_ASSOC. Here is the DDL:

CREATE TABLE "APP"."MESSAGE" (
        "MESSAGE_ID" INTEGER NOT NULL GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY (START WITH 1, INCREMENT BY 1)
    );

ALTER TABLE "APP"."MESSAGE" ADD CONSTRAINT "MESSAGE_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("MESSAGE_ID");

CREATE TABLE "APP"."GROUP_ASSOC" (
        "GROUP_ID" INTEGER NOT NULL,
        "MESSAGE_ID" INTEGER NOT NULL
    );

ALTER TABLE "APP"."GROUP_ASSOC" ADD CONSTRAINT "GROUP_ASSOC_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("MESSAGE_ID", "GROUP_ID");

ALTER TABLE "APP"."GROUP_ASSOC" ADD CONSTRAINT "GROUP_ASSOC_FK" FOREIGN KEY ("MESSAGE_ID")
    REFERENCES "APP"."MESSAGE" ("MESSAGE_ID");

Here is the pojo:

@Entity
@Table(name = "MESSAGE")
public class Message {
    @Id
    @Column(name = "MESSAGE_ID")
    @GeneratedValue(strategy = GenerationType.IDENTITY)
    private int messageId;

    @OneToMany(fetch=FetchType.LAZY, cascade=CascadeType.PERSIST)
    private List groupIds;

    public int getMessageId() {
        return messageId;
    }
    public void setMessageId(int messageId) {
        this.messageId = messageId;
    }
    public List getGroupIds() {
        return groupIds;
    }
    public void setGroupIds(List groupIds) {
        this.groupIds = groupIds;
    }
}

When we try to execute the following test code we get <openjpa-1.2.3-SNAPSHOT-r422266:907835 fatal user error> org.apache.openjpa.util.MetaDataException: The type of field "pojo.Message.groupIds" isn't supported by declared persistence strategy "OneToMany". Please choose a different strategy.

Message msg = new Message();
List groups = new ArrayList();
groups.add(101);
groups.add(102);
EntityManager em = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("TestDBWeb").createEntityManager();
em.getTransaction().begin();
em.persist(msg);
em.getTransaction().commit();

Help!