hibernate insert to a collection causes a delete then all the items in the collection to be inserted again

Question

I have a many to may relationship CohortGroup and Employee. Any time I insert an Employee into the CohortGroup hibernate deletes the group from the resolution table and ins

Answer 1

I had this same problem and with some trial and error found that the deletes did not occur if I used a Set instead of a List as my collection. Irritating, given that I'm using JSF and the UI components will only iterate over Lists. But there it is.