Hibernate :managing Index column in save ( )

[Laurent Salse]

Dear all,
I am still quite "green horned" in hibernate and I am facing an issue I am sure is a classical one ...
For a <one-to-many> relationship between 2 Objects, Hibernate requires an index column in the table of the child elements.
As explained in the API documentation : �For lists, this column contains sequential integers numbered from zero. Make sure that your index really starts from zero if you have to deal with legacy data�.

Does someone know if Hibernate3 implements a mechanism to automatically generate / determine the index value when saving the child Object into the database_table. If yes, howtodo ?

Big thanks by advance for any hints.
cheers,
Laurent