Do you maybe have cascade="save-update" set on the survey.questions association? Removing that might help. This survey.questions also would typically have inverse="true" where question has a survey association that points back to survey.
It seems like for some reason hibernate is trying to persist the "survey.questions" property when it changes. It should rather ignore changes made to that property (which it will do if inverse="true" is set). Things behave better with a 1-many association when you use a bi-directional association where the many side has "inverse=true". Jeff ________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ggyao2005 Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 12:32 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] conflicts resolution for flex data service and hibernate I have two classes, Survey and Question. Both of them have "version" attribute. Class Survey reference a collection of Question. When I add new Question object into the collection reference in Survey, then I commit. e.g. surveyServiceervice.fill(surveys, "survey.all", []); var survey:Survey = surveys.getItemAt(0); var question:Question = new Question(); survey.questions.addItem(question); surveyService.commit([survey], true); in my database, I see the new question object persisted, with foreign key pointing to the survey. I also see the question has a version number of 1. Here is my headache: all the other question objects in the survey.questions have their version number increase by 1. But they are not reflected in the client (browser) side. This makes all my client side data obsolete. I wonder whether this is the "supposed" behavior of hibernate&flex? if not, what configuration attributes I need to take care of? Thanks a lot! York