I am generating entities for our large database via hibernate reverse engineering. I was hoping to see cascade annotations in entities, but did not see them on generation.

Is there a way to direct hibernate to consider foreign keys and generate entities with cascade annotations, so that when i delete a parent all associated entities get automatically deleted.

Basically, I do not want to delete all associated entities & their associations one by one as its a very cumbersome task ; can hibernate reverse engineering help here?

Does anybody have any ideas on this?

Check out this StackOverflow answer.