anonymous wrote : Simple Google: | http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/ANN-250?decorat... There we have established that Hibernate does NOT have the OnDeleteAction.SET_NULL feature. I hope it some day will, since according to the Google searches I made, a considerable number of developers would like to have this feature. Back to the problem. Would you consider an interceptor the best solution for this? Or just designing the application to manually sever the links prior to deleting the Employee? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3987623#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...