I have an object with a collection. What I would like to do is load the object back into my program and delete one element from the collection. I then want to update the object using update and remove the element from the database. What happens now is that the update does not remove the element in the collection. Is there a way to tell hibernate that if I remove an element from an object's collect without specifically pointing to the element and doing a delete?

I have something like this

<hibernate-mapping>
<class name="HeaderVO" table="HEADER" schema="DBAACCTS" lazy="false" >
<id name="controlNumber" >
<column name="CONTROLNUM" />
<generator class="assigned" />
</id>
....
<set
lazy="false"
name="account_list"
cascade="all"
inverse="true"
outer-join="true"
fetch="join"
order-by="linenum asc">
<key column="CONTROLNUM"/>
<one-to-many entity-name="DPAccountVO" />
</set>

......