Hi,
I am using maps to represent a one-to-many relationship in our entity:
@OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy = "patientID")
private Map<Integer, OrderTable> orderTableCollection;
This is a snippet of the Patient entity, which has a one to many relationship with the OrderTable entity.
I am going to be detaching this entity from the J2EE server. Since this is a oneToMany relationship the Map is lazily loaded by default (this is the behavior that I want, I DO NOT want to eagerly load it); does this mean the Map might not be instantiated? Or will the Map be instantiated with the proper OrderTable keys but not the corresponding OrderTable entity values?
Thanks.
