Hibernate version:
Hibernate 3.2.2ga


Hi all,

imaging the following model:

1 Person has n Versions of a Person

Person 1 - n PersonVersion


1 PersonVersion has one Version of an Address

PersonVersion 1 - N Address

1 Address has n Versions of an Address

Address 1 - n AddressVersion

The attributes of e.g. a person are immutable.
If an attribute must be changed it results in a new PersonVersion.

The new PersonVersion is the same one as the old, except for the changed attribute.
So the "new" PersonVersion has the same Address with the same AddressVersions.

The PersonVersion is only a clone. The properties Address and List<AddressVersion> are a copy of the original (same reference).

If i save the Person-Object (persist the changes) I get an exception:
"Found shared references to a collection".

Is there any possibility to only insert the new PersonVersion but not to affect the referenced collections, cause the referenced collections contain the same items (same means the references are equal)

Kind regards,

sebastian

oops..a little bit confusing, not? :)

Simple Example



and now..



All references are mapped with cascade="all".

How to do this?

Kind regards

Sebastian