I am working on a UserCollectionType together with an enhancement of PersistentSet and I wonder is there a way (as far as I know now after my investigantions it might not be a simple way) to obtain (inside PersistentSet or at the level of instantiating it in my UserCollectionType)
info about property name (at the end of "one") and inverse property name (at the end of "many") when using my collection as custom in one-to-many connection?
For now I have found only PersistentCollection.getOwner() and CollectionPersister.getNodeName().

Thanks for any help.
Marcin

Hibernate version: 3.1.3

If you have the Configuration object, then yes, you can do it. However, hibernate does not keep a copy of that object, so if you need these details, you should either figure them out during configuration, or else hang on to the Configuration object.

Configuration.getCollectionMapping(name) gives you the object you need: use getOwnerEntityName and getReferencedPropertyName on that object.

Thank you, that is a good path I think, it is still not easy to get Collection or Configuration inside the code but I will keep trying :)