Hello.

I would like Save a new persistant object without creating/loading its

associations. meanning that I want to pass only the foreign key id.

How can I do that? I want to be able to do so without removing the foreign

key constraint.

Thank you.

since hibernate is an object-oriented persistence engine you need to pass your associations on object level.

If you really need to set the foreign key only only I would suggest to define the foreign key as a simple property, not as an association.

Of course you will loose your model-consistency on the object-level.