Hello, I´m a newbie to Hibernate so please be patient.
My situation is as follows:

I have a N to M relation between tables Profile and Element. In the database there is an intermediate table element_profile. The mapping of this in hibernate is:

<class name="ProfileVO" table="profile">
<id name="code" column="codprofile" />
<property name="description" column="desprofile" />

<set fetch="join" name="elements" table="elemento_perfil" lazy="false">
<key column="codprofile" />
<many-to-many column="codelement" class="ElementVO" />
</set>

</class>

<class name="ElementVO" table="element">
<id name="code" column="codelement" />
<property name="description" column="deselement" />
<property name="codigoElementParent" column="codeleparent" />

<set fetch="join" name="profiles" table="element_profile" lazy="false">
<key column="codelement" />
<many-to-many column="codprofile" class="ProfileVO" />
</set>

<set inverse="true" name="elements">
<key column="codeleparent" />
<one-to-many class="ElementVO" />
</set>

</class>


All the queries I have done work perfectly, but I can´t get the Set of elements of the actual profile.., (My idea: Get the profile, get Set of elements, Iterate elements and if an element is an element to be deleted I save it in a vector, I remove from profile elements marked as deleted).

begin();

ProfileVO proflle=dao.load(getSession(), codeProfile);
Set elements =profile.getElementos(); <====================It has no elements!!!



Iterator itr = elements.iterator();
Vector vDelete=new Vector();
while(itr.hasNext()){
ElementVO element = (ElementVO)itr.next();
if(element.getCode().equalsIgnoreCase(codeElement)){
vDelete.add(element);
}
}
if(vDelete.size()>0){
profile.getElements().removeAll(vDelete);
}


commit();

What am i doing wrong? Is there other way of doing this??

Thank you in advance.