I've been following the documentation here:

http://www.hibernate.org/193.html

and have a question:

If I add objects that contain identical values to a List and persist them, they correctly appear in the database with an ID of 0 and 1, and an index_col of 0 and 1.

i.e.


If I override the Equals method, to compare just for business equality, (i.e. not comparing the ID) then the following code fails:

public int getIndex()
{
return this.getParent().getChildren().indexOf(this);
}

as the first item in the List will always be returned.

For Bidirectional one-to-many relationships with an indexed collection should I NOT override the Equals method?