Hi, I'm having an issue with Hibernate 3.2.5, where I have to save only the parent object in a one-to-many relationship. For example, I have a flower A, that can have many details. Firstly I want to save only the flower, and the details will be added later. This process throws an exception: not-null property references a null or transient value: com.juflora.bean.JFlora._floraSetBackref This is my code: JFlora flora = new JFlora(); flora.setTypeId(Integer.parseInt(type)); flora.setDescription(description); flora.setName(name); flora.setImage(image); flora.setFloraDetails(new HashSet()); session.save(flora); session.getTransaction().commit();