I have a problem with one-to-many bidirectional relationship. I can see the insert statements being echo'd to the system console but the records are not actually getting inserted into the 'many' table.

I am committing and flushing the session and no exceptions are thrown. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Database is MySQL.

Code snippet and mapping are as follows:

SessionFactory sessionFactory = new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();

Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
Employee employee = (Employee)session.load(Employee.class, "1");
Set jobs = employee.getJobs();
if (jobs == null){
jobs = new HashSet();
employee.setJobs(jobs);
}
Job job = new Job();
job.Name = "Work";
jobs.add(job);

session.save(employee);
tx.commit();
session.flush();

snippet from the hibernate file on the Employee end:

<class name="Employee" table="Employee" >
<id name="employeeId" column="employeeId" type="java.lang.String" unsaved-value="undefined">
<generator class="assigned"/>
</id>
<set name="jobs" inverse="true" cascade="all">
<key column="jobId" />
<one-to-many class="Job" />
</set>
</class>

snippet from the hibernate file on the Job end:

<id name="jobId" column="jobId" type="java.lang.Integer">
<generator class="identity"/>
</id>
<many-to-one name="employee"
column="employeeId"
not-null="true" />

could you show the generted sql by hibernate.

maybe you miss the the class attribute at hte <many-to-one> tag.
add the class = "Employee" into the many-to-one tag.
best wishes~!!

It looks like you are flushing after the commit. (I don't know if that has anything to do with it, though.)