"fhh" wrote : Another problem might be that your entityManager is not in sync with the database.
You were right. I simply had to refresh the parent and then hibernate could delete all references. So it's working now. Conclusion: Hibernate does the cascading delete itself and does not use database features for that. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4035656#4035656 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4035656 _______________________________________________ jboss-user mailing list jboss-user@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-user