Hi, I'm running Hibernate 3.0 on Oracle 10g, and have a question on how to disassociate a persistent object from CGLIB. Here is my scenario:

1. I retrieve a parent object from a hibernate session.
2. I get a child object from the parent, which (of course) has a reference to the parent. The object is then detached, because the session is closed - this is a Web application.
3. The parent attribute is never accessed, thus leaving it as a CGLIB attribute.
4. I pass the child object to Castor to marshal it to XML.
5. Castor, of course, tries to access all of the attributes and I get errors because the session has been closed.

So, what I would like to do is to remove all references to parent objects. I will handle child references, but I'm wondering if there's a way to remove non-referenced persistent attributes from a persistent object?

Thanks in advance,

Don

You could always define a Castor XML mapping that explicitly does not go after the parent reference. I'll assume that you are currently using Castors default marshaller? Alternatively, you could define an interface on the Child object that does not refer to the parent. You could then have Castor marshal the interface, not the concrete class. Just to be clear, I'm not talking about using this interface as a Hibernate proxy, just as a means to get you through your issues with Castor. The Castor mapping approach would probably be the least invasive.

Ryan-