I have a mapping similar to the following and it seems that the index column is not populated during the DB INSERT statement because the DB complains about index being NULL. However, if I make the index column nullable it works as expected.



Is there a way to force Hibernate to populate the index while inserting? I'm sure there must be a way but I've looked into the docs and couldn't find anything.

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I also asked the question on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4119 ... list-index

I answered it on StackOverflow.