Hibernate version: 3

Hello,

Here is the problem I'm having:
- A have an object A that contains a list of objects B.
- Object B has a date field which is defined in the mapping xml like so:
- If I retrieve object A through hibernate, and then browse its objects B by calling a.getBs().iterator(), update another field of object A and finally save A, hibernate will update the last_update field of all the related object B!

I do not want that! Why does Hibernate update this field when all I did was browse through the B objects without updating them? Actually the simple call to iterator() will cause this.

Hope anyone can help...
Thanks

I suspect that Hibernate is replacing the Object B objects.

You could probably see for yourself what is going on behind the scenes by enabling SQL logging and checking whether there are delete and insert statements, or updates.


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Stephen Souness