First, I'm using Hibernate Tools 3.1.0 beta4 with Eclipse 3.1.2. I haven't provided any code or trace information since it is irrelevant to my question.

Can I specify the type of collection I would like to use for reverse engineering one-to-many relationships? Specifically, I would like to use <list> instead of the default <set> in my generated hbm.xml files and java.util.List in the corresponding POJOs.

I've looked at the tools documentation and I cannot find any reference to configuring this. However, I see that there are Velocity templates for doing this (hbm/list.hbm.vm) , but am not sure how the tools can be configured to use them. It seems I would have to configure this in either the hibernate.reveng.xml or I'd have to write a ReverseEngineeringStrategy, but the latter seems to only allow for naming attributes.

Is this even possible, or do I have to go in after generation and manually change sets to lists?

Thanks,

Mike

currently not possible.

remember that changing e.g. set to list requires you to also specify an index column....making the configuration even more hairy..;;)

try bag instead of set

My problem was that hessian does not like set.

Now i can work with List in java and with ArrayList in C#.