Hi,

( This is with context to One to Many or Many to Many associations )

I have been reading that inverse=true is used to indicate to hibernate as to which side of the association it needs to manage, because foreign key column is duplicated.

I am unable to visualize this scenario,

can someone explain this to me, in terms of Product to Parts example ( Product to Parts is bi directional Many To Many association )

Regards
Vyas, Anirudh

ANY ONE ?

OK - Many-to-many one side needs to be inverse true (assuming you are updating both sides of the Java instance object relationship). The reason is simple - think in terms of an event being generated that hibernate needs to save the relationship in the database. If both sides generate an update event then there could be a problem with the SQL operation due to two operations being signaled when it only requires to be executed once. The inverse states that this side does not require an event to be generated or alternatively the other sode will generate the event - so for example - making both sides inverse will result in no SQL operation being generated as no event will be signaled from either side.

Thanks a lot david. I am new to Hibernate and thus trying to find out meaning of inverse.
Short and fantastic explanation for THE inverse attribute.