I have a Bean in the following structure : Class Bar{ List fooList; } Class Foo{ String name; } This structure is mapped with the following mapping file : When the data is saved the ensueing node structure is like : Bar |___fooList |___collection-element |___collection-element My Question is how can I specify a particular node name for 'collection-element' ? Is there an attribute in the mapping file (possibly for collection-descriptor) to specify the name of each element? Thanks Boni Gopalan Manager Engineering BioImagene, Pune +91-206-609-6579(O) +91-992-369-9356(C)