[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-4301) @CollectionOfElements does not cascade on delete

@CollectionOfElements does not cascade on delete ------------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-4301 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-4301 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: annotations Environment: Hibernate 3.2.6 GA Database: H2 1.0.72 Reporter: Nicole Rauch Consider the following constellation: @Embeddable public class Foo { // ... } @Entity public class Bar { @CollectionOfElements private Set<Foo> myFoos; // ... } When I persist a Bar object that contains some Foos, and when I later decide to delete the Bar object, I get a foreign key constraint violation error message because the Foo objects, which contain a reference to the Bar object that owns them, are not deleted automatically. I would expect the default behaviour to be "on delete cascade" because the Foo objects are embeddables, thus they cannot exist on their own without the Bar object that owns them. But there is no way to tell Hibernate to cascade: - the @OnDelete annotation is only allowed for OneToMany relations - the @Cascade annotation is being ignored - there is no "cascade" property for the CollectionOfElements So my question is: Why does the cascading not occur automatically, and how do I tell Hibernate to cascade anyways? Thanks a lot in advance, Nicole