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Navigable associations translate in java code to a class attribute, and to the corresponding getter/setters-methods. A non-navigable association is not translated to java code at all. I would expect it should translate to an attribute, but without getter/setters. My understanding is, "navigable" means "navigable from outside the class".
Swoitching from "feature" to "enhancement". We use feature for release planning.