Hi,

I have a many to many relationship between Items and Tags. So I created a join table Item_Tag. I don't have an intermediate association class.

To add a tag to item I am doing:



Let us assume that this item already has 5 tags and a 6th one is being added. When I save the item, Hibernate is issuing an update on item table, a update on each of the 5 existing tags and one insert for the new tag.

How do I tell Hibernate not to bother about updating the existing 5 tags. Just insert the new tag.

Thank you very much,