[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Resolved: (HHH-2741) Deleting objects on inverse end of many to many relationship

Deleting objects on inverse end of many to many relationship ------------------------------------------------------------ Key: HHH-2741 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-2741 Project: Hibernate3 Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.2.1 Reporter: James Roper I have a Class, Stock, that has a bidirectional many to many indexed relationship with itself. Here is the mapping: @ManyToMany @JoinTable(name = "input_output_stock", joinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "id_output_stock"), inverseJoinColumns = @JoinColumn(name = "id_input_stock")) @IndexColumn(name = "ix_input_stock") @ForeignKey(name = "stock_output_fk", inverseName = "stock_input_fk") private List<Stock> inputStock; @ManyToMany(mappedBy = "inputStock") private List<Stock> outputStock; When I delete stock objects, Hibernate runs the following queries: Hibernate: delete from input_output_stock where id_output_stock=? Hibernate: delete from stock where id=? This causes problems when deleting objects that are at the inverse end of the relationship. Shouldn't Hibernate be running another query to delete where id_input_stock=? As far as I can see in the Hibernate documentation and the EJB3 spec, there is no mention that this is the case.