hello,
I'm new to Hibernate, and I'm facing one problem here....
I have one-to-many mapping, and I want to delete from child table.
this are the steps:
1. I load the parent data into forms (collection of textfields), and the child data into an arraylist
2. I delete one of the arraylist item
3. I save the parent data and the child data

now, the steps of saving the data is that I put all the arraylist items, into a java.util.List,
and then save it.

the child item is deleted (I can't see it when I load the parent), but the problem is, it's still there
in the database, but it's parent_id value is null.

does anyone have a better practice about this, or suggestion?
thanks

The key term you are looking for is probably "orphan removal".

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=hibernate+orphan+removal

hi ringerc,
if I'm not mistaken, usually the term orphan-delete is to delete "orphaned" children when we delete the parent.
but for my problem, I want to delete a child/children when the parent is still there.
I really don't know the best practice of how to do that. I only know to fetch the data into an arraylist,
delete the item I don't want from that arraylist, and then I save that arraylist.

Hi ringerc,
I think I've mistakenly understood the "flow",
I should delete the children from the parent class, instead of deleting the children from the arraylist,
because it's only the view, and not the data...

thank you for pointing me to the articles...

Faizal