Is is possible to change the way Hibernate orders the queries when doing inserts? I have a list of chocolates and a list of boxes that hold the chocolates, and would like to insert all of the chocolates before the boxes into the database in order to avoid constraint issues. I'm encountering an issue where it looks like hibernate is inserting the boxes before the chocolates.

nefi

add an association between boxes and choclates with cascade save .
And save the box . Hibernate would figure out which ones to insert
first.

Or if you have done that already could you post the mapping and the code which saves the objects.