hi all,

i currently joined an underway project that is employing hibernate for persistence. i read something in the guide that i'm trying to fully understand. it appears that hibernate does not support bi-directional associations in a 1 - m parent and child relationship using and indexed collection type. i'm sure there's a very obvious reason, or i just read this wrong but why but i simply don't understand how using an indexed collection is any different than an unindexed collection as it relates to bi-directional associations. could someone educate me on this topic?


tia,
sean

Hibernate does not manage the relationship from a Java perspective (unlike EJB 2) for very good reason (dettached objects, java transparency, ...)
So when the association is bidirectional, there is 1 side that lead the relation, usually the many side.

How to do child.setParent(parent); and give Hibernate the index information?

Check
http://hibernate.org/155.html
and
http://hibernate.org/193.html