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Hibernate version: 3.1.3

Mapping documents: Order Customer

Code between sessionFactory.openSession() and session.close():
Customer

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Hi my problem is: I have orders that belong to a customer. If I delete a customer, but an order exists, that belongs to that customer I get this exception. Is there any way to tell hibernate to delete these accosiations that point to data that doesn't exists anymore?

thank you for your help

greetings

Your options are to do it in business logic (or in some layer between business logic and DAL), or to add the collection of Orders to your Customer class and mapping. Then you could add a cascade="delete" or some superset to the collection.