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[b]Hibernate version:3.1[/b] 
[b]Mapping documents:<hibernate-mapping>
	<class name="Customer" table="customers">
		<id name="id">
			<generator class="native"/>
		</id>
		<property name="name"/>
		<set name="orders" [color=red][u]inverse ="true"[/u][/color]  lazy="true">
			<key column="customer_id"/>
			<one-to-many class="Order"/>
		</set>
	</class>[/b]
[b]Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
 	Customer customer = (Customer)session.load(Customer.class,cust);
 	HashMap orderItem = orderItems;
 	Set keys  =	orderItem.keySet();
	Iterator itr = keys.iterator();
	List listItem = new ArrayList();
	
 	while(itr.hasNext()){
 		Long itemNo = (Long)itr.next();
 		Product prd = (Product)session.load(Product.class,itemNo);
 		Integer qty = (Integer)orderItem.get(itemNo);
 		LineItem lineitem = new LineItem(prd,qty);
 		listItem.add(lineitem);
 	}
 	Date date = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
 	Order order = new Order(date);
 	order.setLineItems(listItem);
 	Set customerOrder  = new HashSet();
 	customerOrder.add(order);
 	customer.setOrders(customerOrder);
 	session.save(order);
 	session.save(customer);
  	tx.commit();[/b]
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Hi  in above  shown mapping file IF I remove  Lazy = true then follwoing this is happening..
Suppose   first time 
 
Customer has  1 order and  that order has 3 line item 
customer 1 --- Order 1--- Line Item 1 and Lien Item 2
When I tried to order second order for Same cusomer again with above code 
customer 1 --- Order 2--- Line Item 1 and Lien Item 2
But See what happen to my First row it loose  reference to Customer
 customer 1 --- [b][u]null [/u][/b]--- Line Item 1 and Lien Item 2
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When I make Inverse = true in mapping file then it is working fine .. 
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