I have 2 very simple test classes:

Person: that has an Id, Name and a List of Books
Book : that has a Id, Title and a PERSON_ID

The releastionship is that a Person can have many Books. I'm using a one-to-many relationship to map this.

I can persist the data to my database, (although an extra column is created in the Book table...)

However what I want to know is:

When I seach for a Person in the database I can retrieve a persisted object, but the associated List of Books are not returned with it.

Do I have to search the database for these book objects separately, or should they be returned by Hibernate if my initial mappings are correct.

Thanks for any help given. Please don't tell me to read the manual, I've spent weeks looking at every word of it!!!!!

yes.

post your mapping docs and I'm sure you'll get an answer consisting of more than one word.

when you post, there is a red card, please read it....