You can enable cascade persist globally via the jpa defined persistence-unit-metadata defauls element in the orm.xml See the snippet below:
<entity-mappings xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/persistence/orm orm_2_0.xsd" version="2.0"> <persistence-unit-metadata> <persistence-unit-defaults> <cascade-persist/> </persistence-unit-defaults> </persistence-unit-metadata> ... </entity-mappings> Thanks, Rick On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 9:09 PM, Mansour Al Akeel <mansour.alak...@gmail.com > wrote: > Is the a way to enable cascade persist globally and pro grammatically using > an EntityManager instance ?? > > > Thank you. > -- *Rick Curtis*