1.  Should collections for 1:n relationships be updated automatically?

Example:  I have a class "foo" which has a collection of "bars".  The bar class has a 
corresponding reference to its parent "foo."  If I create a new bar, do a 
bar.setFoo(fooInstance) and save that bar, should I expect fooInstance's bar 
collection to be updated with that bar automatically?  From what I have seen (in ODMG) 
this is not the case, unless I have refresh="true", which can be costly when speaking 
in terms of large numbers of bar records.

2. ODMG updates.

I have noticed that, with complex objects graphs, ODMG updates tend to be unacceptably 
long (upwards to 15 to 30 seconds), even if 98% of the graph was not changed during 
the transaction.  Is this to be expected?  Is ODMG actually traversing my entire 
object graph looking for changed objects through reachability?  That means OJB/ODMG 
would have to be materializing all collection descriptors/references throughout the 
object graph to check for changes (which, consequently, have not happened since the 
proxy hadn't been materialized yet).  This would negate the usefulness of the proxy 
attribute.  Or is OJB smart enough to realize that non-materialized proxy collections 
should not be checked for changes, since they obviously have never been accessed?  Any 
suggestions on this?  I would use straight pb with auto-updates customized for 
performance, but it seems, at least with my version of rc4, auto-update gets ignored 
in certain instances.

3.  auto-delete=true and ODMG

I know the docs say you should not use auto-delete with ODMG.  However, I have seen 
posts to the list that say it can be used safely.  With the current version of rc4 I 
have, it appears that ODMG is ignoring the auto-delete="true" entirely.  Is this to be 
expected?


Thanks,
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