Okay, I am trying to create directly associated parent/children. In reading the documentation regarding this, I am left with some implementation questions.

1. does the implementation class of the child need a get/set pair for the parent id, or is that an automatic (under the hood) generation by hibernate?

2. if the child needs a get/set pair... is the correct semantic setParent(Parent p) or setParentId(long id)?

3. in the examples in section 6.9-11, it shows that the only difference in the bidirectional one-to-many association with/without inverse=true is that the child parent id is set to not null??

It's done automatic under the hood. You have to define only Parent and Child members.



setParent(Parent p).

Artur

It's not generated under the hood, but Hibernate knows the id because it manages the association.

3. http://www.hibernate.org/Documentation/InsideExplanationOfInverseTrue