Hibernate version: 3.2.6.ga

Hi,
in many part of my application I need to check if an entity has referring children without cascade delete before remove it, but doing all these check manually require a lot of code (also because not all parent-child association are mapped on both associations ends), so I was looking for a way to do these checks automatically with hibernate without use integrity constraing on DB.

I was thinking to use some sort of Interceptor technique, but i was worrying if there is a better and simpler way to achieve the same result.

Someone can help me?

Thanks!
Luca.