I have a the following one-to-many relation ship.

User-----------------(1...*) --------->UserRole

//User.hdb.xml
<hibernate-mapping package="com.beans">
<class name="User" table="USERS">
<id name="userId" column="USERNAME">
<generator class="assigned" />
</id>
<property name="password" column="USERPASS"/>
<property name="repId" column="SALESREPID"/>
<bag name="userroles" inverse="true" cascade="all">
<key column="USERNAME"/>
<one-to-many class="UserRole"/>
</bag>
</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

//UserRole.hbm.xml
<hibernate-mapping package="com.beans">
<class name="UserRole" table="USER_ROLES">
<id name="userId" column="USERNAME" unsaved-value="any">
<generator class="assigned"/>
</id>
<property name="roleName" column="ROLENAME"/>

</class>
</hibernate-mapping>

When I delete the the User object, it deletes only the user records, but not the user roles from the USER_ROLES.

Here are the POJOs:

public final class User implements Serializable {
private String userId;
private String password;
private String repId;
private List userroles;
....//and getters and setters
}

public final class UserRole implements Serializable {

private String userId;
private String roleName;

.......//and getters and setters
}

I do the following:

delete(User user) throws Exception
{
Session session = getSession();
session.delete(user);
session.flush();
session.close();
}
Do I need to explicitly call delete on on the child components?
Thanks,
Jeelani

remove inverse="true" since you don't have a bidirectional relationship.
You should chek the wiki page talking to inverse attribute, it is important to understand that.

I removed the inversion="true" to make it false (default value). Still I am not able to delete. Looking into the problems.

Thanks for the help.
Jeelani

Oh

means a user can have only 1 role.
If it is true, use a one-to-one
If it is false distinct the one-to-many key (USERNAME) from the rold id which must be unique.