Hibernate Inverse attribute

Question

I am creating a one-to-many relationship. so, i have a parent and a child. The cascade attribute is set to all.

I was wondering, if we consider the following piece of co

Answer 1

Inverse is only to tell NH that the foreign key is mapped twice, usually as a one-to-many and a many-to-one, and that it therefore only needs to be stored from one side.

Q1) the child is stored by cascade, but the parent-FK is null. (Except you set the parent relation in the child within p.addChild(c).)

Q2) same as Q1.

Q3) exactly.