Collection Management Options

Sort

Specifies a sorted collection with natural sort order, or a given comparator class.

Hibernate Tag: sort

Order by

Specifies a table column (or columns) that define the iteration order of the Set or bag, together with an optional asc or desc.

Hibernate Tag: order-by

Access

Specifies the strategy Hibernate should use for accessing the property value.

Hibernate Tag: access

Cascade

Specifies which operations should be cascaded from the parent object to the associated object.

Hibernate Tag: cascade

Collection type

Specifies a name that indicates the Hibernate type.

Hibernate Tag: type

Batch size

Specifies the batch load size.

Hibernate Tag: batch-size

Not found

Specifies how foreign keys that reference missing rows will be handled: ignore will treat a missing row as a null association.

Hibernate Tag: not-found

Inverse collection

Specifies that the role is the inverse relation of the opposite role.

Hibernate Tag: inverse