Hi there!
I'm new to Hibernate. I'm studing it on Hibernate Quickly by Manning.
I am some problems with bidirectional associations, maybe i didn't understand something... :)
I read that in order to declare a bidirectional associations i must declare inverse="true" in the mapping file of the many end (if one to many) or inverse="true" in a random side (if many to many). With this scenario I have observed that every savings made on the inverse end will not be persisted, and this is an expected behaviour. But if I delete inverse="true" and I declare cascade="all" on both sides of association I can:
- save on both sides
- navigate in each direction
So the question is: WHY I HAVE TO USE inverse="true" if it limits my persist operation?

Thanks 4 help!!!

Carlo

Hi,

Could pl. let me know your observations to the following

Class A constains collection of B's.

In this context if you save B, is A is also getting stored..

What if B has one to one assoication with C, then Saving C would B and A also gets saved..

I am seeing few funny issues such as while saving B, it fails on certain cases with exception, however A is getting stored etc.. even after transaction rollback etc.

Regards,
Nagendra