Consider Dialect.supportsReferentialAction( boolean isDelete, ReferentialAction action ) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-6428 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-6428 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Task Reporter: Gail Badner If Dialect.supportsReferentialAction( boolean isDelete, ReferentialAction action ) is added, then Dialect.supportsCascadeDelete() could be deprecated. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira