I have two tables... For example - Company and Employee (let's keep this real simple)

Company( id, name );
Employee( id,  company_id );

Employee.company_id is a foreign key.

My entity model looks like this...

Employee

@ManyToOne(cascade = CascadeType.PERSIST)
@JoinColumn(name = "company_id")
Company company;

Company

@OneToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, fetch = FetchType.EAGER)
@JoinColumn(name = "company_id")
List<Employee> employeeList = new ArrayList<Employee>();

So, yeah I want a list of employees for a company.

When I do the following...

Employee e = new Employee();
e.setCompany(c); //c is an Company that is already in the database.
DAO.insertEmployee(e); //this works fine!

If I then get my Company object it's list is empty!

Ive tried endless different ways from the Hibernate documentation!

Obviously not tried the correct one yet!

I just want the list to be populated for me or find out a sensible alternative.

Help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!