Some relationship mapping types (Direct Collection Mappings, One-to-Many Mappings, and Many-to-Many Mappings) contain a Collection Options tab to allow you to specify collection options.
TopLink can populate a collection in ascending or descending order, upon your specification. Query keys are automatically created for and with the same name as all attributes mapped as direct-to-field, type conversion, object type, and serialized object mappings.
Figure 5-3 Collection Options
Collection options called out in Figure 5-3:
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