Hi,
I got this problem I got this many-to-many relation between two beans. Agent and Location with the third table being created "agent_link". The problem is there are already location defined in Location table.

Whenever I create a new agent an update statement is fired on the Location table which I don't want. How can I solve this problem. My mapping file is pretty simple as per the specification.
One more thing i would like to add is that the Agent contains list of Location but the Location bean doesn't have the collection for Agent.
I didn't wanted to keep the relationship 2 ways.
Am I doing anything wrong over here.
regards
prasad

Don't update the location object.
And don't use cascade="save-update"