Hibernate中遇到的一个Exception

做项目的时候遇到一个很头疼的报错：Illegal attempt to associate a collection with two opensessions

出错原因:  一个Object Version 包含了两个oneTomany关系。在数据库调取出一个version对象时，再用saveOrUpdate这个对象就会出现如上错误

解决办法:  讲session.saveOrUpdate(version)改为session.merge(version)

原理分析:  saveOrUpdate是在同一个session里用于保存或更新一个条目，而merge可以用于两个不同session数据的保存或更新。
HibernateReference里说：

saveOrUpdate() does the following:

• if the object is already persistent in this session, donothing
• if another object associated with the session has the sameidentifier, throw an exception
• if the object has no identifier property, save() it
• if the object's identifier has the value assigned to a newlyinstantiated object, save() it
• if the object is versioned by a or , and the version property valueis the same value assigned to a newly instantiated object, save()it
• otherwise update() the object

merge() is very different:

• if there is a persistent instance with the same identifiercurrently associated with the session, copy the state of the givenobject onto the persistent instance
• if there is no persistent instance currently associated with thesession, try to load it from the database, or create a newpersistent instance
• the persistent instance is returned
• the given instance does not become associated with the session, itremains detached

网上有其他资料说代码如下：entity=merge(entity);  saveOrUpdate(entity);这是错误的，第二行代码完全没有必要，因为entity已经是persistentobject，会被saveOrUpdate忽略。直接用session.merge（version)即可。