Hi there,
This issue keeps cropping up for us as well and it is very frustrating. In many instances it does not make sense to have a bidirectional relationship. For example we have many different entities with a oneToMany relationship to the same type of entity (for storing xml based metadata). This scenario does not allow for a bidirectional relationship.
Obviously there are workarounds - but there should be no need to perform them. This problem is clearly a bug - the implementation does not match the specification. I still don't understand how it can be a P4.
Cameron
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