Essentially "inverse" indicates which end of a relationship should be ignored, so when
persisting a parent who has a collection of children, should you ask the parent for its
list of children, or ask the children who the parents are ?

Here is how you set this parameter in a <many-to-one> relation.
Child :
<hibernate–mapping>
<class name="Child" table="child">
 <many–to–one name="parent"
                 class="Parent"
                 column="parent_id"/>
</class>
</hibernate–mapping>
 

Parent :
<hibernate–mapping>
<class name="Child" table="child">
<bag name="children" inverse="true" cascade="save–update">
      <key column="parent_id"/>
      <one–to–many class="Child"/>
    </bag>
</class>
</hibernate–mapping>

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