What gets stored in an object object, and what doesn't?

Hello all,

If an ozone object has a Vector, and things are added to it, I've always
assumed that if they are Ozone objects, they are not stored again in the
object, but a reference (or pointer) to the object in the database is
stored instead.  If it is not an ozone object (like a String) it would
get stored.  This has always held true, but now I'm getting some strange
behaviour which has taken me quite a while to find out what's going on.

I have a unnamed ozone class called FeatureImpl.  I also have another
unnamed ozone class called LineImpl.  Many instances of both exist in
the database.  Feature has a Vector (actually is isn't, it's an object
which extends Object and contains a Vector).  I have a routine which
adds LineImpls to this Vector.  
Within the same routine, if I list the last object in the vector of the
FeatureImpl just after I've added it, the returned object has the same
remoteID (hashCode) as the the object I just added.  All well and good.
The strange behaviour is here:  When I disconnect from the database and
reconnect, they the FeatureImpl Vector contains LineImpls (well..
proxies anyway) with a different and higher remoteID/hashCode - yet have
the same state variables - which means that my overrided equals routine
(which compares hashcodes) sees them as different.  In looks to me like
the database has duplicates these objects and that this somehow and for
some reason happened after I read the last element in the Vector just
after adding is and reading the contents of the Vector after
disconnection and reconnection.  The LineImpl may be stored in the
Vector of FeatureImpl (hence my opening paragraph), but actually I think
this isn't the case because it has a new remoteID

I'm using Ozone 1.2 and LocalDatabase. This definitely worked before,
but I can't be sure if it's to do with my changing from Ozone 1.1 and
ExternalDatabase to Ozone 1.2 and LocalDatabase.  (I changed to the
latter because it's easier to debug in a LocalDatabase).

Is anyone able to offer advice on my problem? 

Thanks,
Aidan.



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