http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/refer ... tions.html says: " Collection instances are distinguished in the database by a foreign key to the owning entity."

Can Hibernate manage collections that do not have a containing entity? That is, is there such a thing as a managed-by-Hibernate Java list that supports add(), remove(), and so on?

(To ask this question in another way, is it possible to use Hibernate to manage a table with just two columns: id and name? Everything I've read seem to indicate that Hibernate can only manage lists if they are embedded within another object, and even then only if the list references this object.)



Michael

Not possible (actually, it was in Hibernate 1.x, but no one needed it).