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Tag: jpa-2.0

How to detach an entity from an EntityManager

My environment Java 7/JPA 2/Hibernate 5.1. My Scenario I’m building a Repository pattern implementation. All code is written and it all works fine when no error condition happens. However, let’s say that three entity instances are added to the repository. First and third are ok, but second lacks v…

JPA: unidirectional many-to-one and cascading delete

Say I have a unidirectional @ManyToOne relationship like the following: If I have a parent P and children C1…Cn referencing back to P, is there a clean and pretty way in JPA to automatically remove the children C1…Cn when P is removed (i.e. entityManager.remove(P))? What I’m looking for is a…