this is probably a trivial question, but I'm trying to get a set from a parent-children connection, (parent.getChildren() )but I can't see how to define the ordering of the child set.

for instance, the child mapping has an int (childID), a string (childCode), and a date (childRegDate). I would like to be able to get these as sorted lists on the different fields, depending on where/why I need them. Is tehre any way to do this, or do I always have to sort them by hand afterwards?

Cheers
Ati.

Use a HQL order by clause to query them, or define them es a bag and use the order by / sort attributes in the mapping.

ok.. so I wasn't nuts that I couldnt find how to order the sets.. I'll look at using a bag instead.
thnx.

I am currently using the 'order by' in HQL to do this just because that was the only option I found... but it means that I could never actually use the getChildren() method (since I needed ordering) which would be neater.. codewise at least.. although functionally the same..
thnx again.

You should also be able to use set if you use a SortedSet I think