Hi,

I was going thru Hibernate reference documentation. It says:
All bi-directional associations need one side as inverse. In a one-to-many association it has to be the many-side.

but, i have seen a special case in my project where inverse is on one-side in one-to-many association.

My first question is can we use inverse on one side in one-to-many association. if yes in what case can we use it??

Is it ok to use inverse="true" on one side relation.

Thanks,

I don't think <many-to-one> supports inverse, at least not in Hibernate 2.x.
As a general rule, it's almost always easier to manipulate the many-to-one side anyway.

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