Using hibernate with annotations, i want a one-many relationship to be sorted

Question

Using hibernate with annotations, i want a one-many relationship to be sorted by the 'created' field on the 'many' table.

So far i've got this, which always ends up in a random order:

// The notes 
@OneToMany
@JoinColumn(name="task_id")
Set<TaskNote> notes;
public Set<TaskNote> getNotes() {return notes;}
public void setNotes(Set<TaskNote> notes) {this.notes = notes;} 

Answer 1

since neither answer gave you the full solution :

@OneToMany
@JoinColumn(name="task_id")
@OrderBy("created")
List<TaskNote> notes;
public List<TaskNote> getNotes() {return notes;}
public void setNotes(List<TaskNote> notes) {this.notes = notes;}

Set is unordered, so use List instead, and you need the @OrderBy annotation too.