I've read the documentation and the forum. And it seems that if you have a bidirectional relationship. You have to delete the object on both sides of the relationship.

The problem with this is that I'm using the second-level cache and I have the following relationship Parent->Children & Child->Parent (one-to-many & many-to-one)

The problem comes when the second-level cache contains the parent and the associated collection of children.

If I want to delete a child object I first have to remove it from the parent by calling parent.getChildren().remove(). The problem is that I only have the primary key of the child. So to get the parent I have to first load the child and then call child.getParent().getChildren().remove(child).

Can someone verify this. I'm quite sure this is the case.

Can someone please verify the above.

sure.

Danke sch