hiberante Many-to-Many: save

[Edward Chen]

In hiberante Many-to-Many, is it possible like this

   Teacher t = new Teacher();
   List<Student> s = new ArrayList<Student>();
   // add some students.
   t.setStudents(s);
   getHibernateTemplate().save(t);

In the last step save, it will save object Teacher and each of Students ?

Usually, we need firstly create student and save it, create Teacher and save it. Then set the array to Teacher and update it. It is too many steps. So I am curious if we have some shortcut ?

Thanks.

[Arun Kumarr]

t.setStudents(s);

- Does the List<Students> entry in POJO accompanied by <list> entry in the Student.hbm file? If yes, then add the xml element <list ... cascade="save"/> in the Student.hbm.