Hibernate version: 3.2.4.sp1

Hi,
I'm trying to build a many-to-many relation between Person and Address, both having a set inside.
In the hbm file i made inverse= true for Address.
This works fine in case of saving data. But i'm getting a StackOverFlowException when i'm trying to load either of the entity.

How to solve this problem?

Regards,
Supriyo

please show the code

Mapping :
<class name="Person">
.......
<set name="address" table name="PERSON_ADDRESS">
<key column="PERSON_ID"/>
<many-to-many column="ADD_ID" class="Addres"/>
</set>


<class name="Addres">
.......
<set name="persons" table name="PERSON_ADDRESS" inverse="true">
<key column="ADD_ID"/>
<many-to-many column="PERSON_ID" class="Person"/>
</set>

Java code:

session.save( new Person(.....)); //working
session.load( Person.class, personId); // Not working

At the time of loading it is giving StackOverflowException.
Is there any option to get rid of this???

Supriyo

you are committing a common mistake.

The reason is that with every Person, n Address objects are loaded and with every Address object, m Persons are loaded. This is a cycle which eventually crashes the JVM.

Use an association table for this purpose. and make your associations lazy loaded.

This should solve the problem.

Thanks dude,
I did overwrite the toString methods of those classes, from where the problem started.
again thanx a lot.