How to Serialize Hibernate Collections Properly?

Question

I\'m trying to serialize objects from a database that have been retrieved with Hibernate, and I\'m only interested in the objects\' actual data in its entirety (cycles inclu

Answer 1

solution described here worked well for me: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/XSTR-226

the idea is to have custom XStream converter/mapper for hibernate collections, which will extract actual collection from hibernate one and will call corresponding standard converter (for ArrayList, HashMap etc.)