Hibernate and Spring: value of many-to-many not inserted into generated table

Question

I've got a bit of experience with spring, but I'm completely new to Hibernate, especially in combination with Spring: I want to have a Many-to-Many relationship between two tables (author, publication). The table is generated, but nothing is inserted...

Part of Author.java:

@ManyToMany(cascade = {CascadeType.ALL})
@JoinTable(name = "writes", joinColumns = {@JoinColumn(name = "authorId")}, inverseJoinColumns = {@JoinColumn(name = "publicationId")})
private Set<Publication> publications = new HashSet<Publication>();

part of Publication.java:

@ManyToMany(mappedBy = "publications")
private Set<Author> authors = new HashSet<Author>();

Is there something I forgot?

Thanks!!!!

Edit

here's the code which should save everything to my database:

@RequestMapping(value = PATHELEM + "/insertTest", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public String addAuthor(@ModelAttribute("object") DatabaseObject object,
        BindingResult result) {
    authorService.addAuthor(object.getAuthor());
    publicationService.addPublication(object.getPublication());
    return PATHELEM + "/insertEntryForm";
}

where is the code that tries to save? – Bozho Nov 27 '12 at 19:48 — Bozho, Nov 27 '12 at 19:48

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '12 at 19:54

You are missing two important things:

associating your entities with a session. If you just create your objects, hibernate can't know whether to save them to db. That's why you should call session.save(..) / entityManager.persist(..) (depending on whether you use JPA).
transaction - every manipulation in hibernate needs a transaction, so you have to start one via the entity manager / session

I'd suggest reading a tutorial, which will explain these basic principles.

Hibernate and Spring: value of many-to-many not inserted into generated table

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