Hi Serge,
Well the problem is that it doesn't fail in the right place. I agree that the test has to fail, but it should fail in the code that tests references, while in the case of my implementation it was failing while trying to retrieve the references from the database.
Is this still in sync with the stack trace you sent? In this stack trace, the error occurs inside the SharedItemStateManager when it finds a NodeReferences object pointing to a non-existing node. After having inspected its own private change log, it consults its cache and finally invokes PersistenceManager#exists(NodeReferences) which should return false. Does it fail inside this method?
For some reason I don't understand, the Hibernate/OJBPersistenceManager's store(NodeReferences) method never gets called, and I think the problem lies in finding out why that is the case.
Did you try with a very basic example that adds a new property of type REFERENCE that references another existing node and then saves the node?
Kind regards Dominique
