Gavin:
(1) Ok, I get a dink award for this one... my problem was for one-to-many. I messed up and put many-to-one, although I was looking for a property-ref on the one-to-many def, but I didn't see it.
(2) Was it seriously unclear? Other than the fact I completely used the wrong tag, it made perfect sense. lol
(3) I wasn't threatening. I know you couldn't care less about "1" guy somewhere on the net (and boy does it show), and that wasn't why I made the comment. I was somewhat at a loss, and still am at the moment. On the flip side, I'm also hoping that the Advanced Mapping chapter of your book Hibernate in Action would help clear some of this up too. So crank it out. :)


Anthony, another ORM or JDO implementation might or might not do what I need. I agree though that switching in never a good idea, but sometimes you have to do what you have to do. Again this might just be a special case where Hibernate doesn't work out for us, and I can obviously tell that if we were using Hibernate in a standard persistence fashion instead of passing related data across web services for persistence, then it would be cat's meow.

Also I figured you were busy which is why I said, "I know the forums are free and developers like me are spending time helping when they can." It's not like your obligated to answer posts... I was just hoping someone else would see it and shed some light on the subject.

Peace

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