Hibernate version: 2.1.2

I'm using Hibernate version 2.1.2 and have a question about how Hibernate List indexes are decremented.

I'll explain the scenario.
ObjectA has a list of ObjectB. I want to delete some objects of ObjectB directly without having to remove them explicitly from the list on ObjectA. The outcome is that the objectB's that I delete will also no longer show up on ObjectA's list but I prefer to work with ObjectB directly for this deletion. But if I do this, it seems that I will also have to handle the correct decrement of Hibernate List indexes. Is this a correct assumption? And more importantly has anyone found a cleaner solution to this problem?

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

A better rephrasement of my original question.


I have these classes:

Class Parent {
List children; // of Child
}

class Child {
}

The "children" field is mapped using
<list name="children" >
<key column="index_col"/>
<one-to-many class="Child"/>
</list>


Let's suppose that a parent object has children [A, B, C].
If I delete object B directly then the list of children becomes [A, null,
C].
But what I want it to be is [A,C].
Is this a Hibernate bug or feature?

It's your responsibility to set up your object structure correctly before deleting objects.