I have one-to-many relationship between Person and ContactEntry classes. My hibernate version is 3.3.2.GA.

Person class has Set of ContactEntry.

I create objects as follows, which works fine.
sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().save(person);
for each contactEntry {
sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().save (contactEntry);
person.addContact(contactEntry);
}
sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().update(person);

I remove one of the contactEntry as in the following psudo code
contactEntry = person.getContact().iterator().next();
person.removeContact(contactEntry);
sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().delete(contactEntry);

I am executing junit test with SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.

If I do the creation and removal of one contactEntry in two different tests everything works perfectly. However if I do it in the same test, I get
org.hibernate.ObjectDeletedException: deleted object would be re-saved by cascade (remove deleted object from associations).

Following is the trace

BUT... IF I do evict on person anytime before deleting contactEntry...it's okay with hibernate!

[junit] Caused by: org.hibernate.ObjectDeletedException: deleted object would be re-saved by cascade (remove deleted object from associations): [in.opencombine.communication.E_ContactEntry#165]
[junit] at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.forceFlush(SessionImpl.java:1042)
[junit] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.entityIsTransient(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:188)
[junit] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.performSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:117)
[junit] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.onSaveOrUpdate(DefaultSaveOrUpdateEventListener.java:93)
[junit] at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireSaveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:535)
[junit] at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.saveOrUpdate(SessionImpl.java:527)
[junit] at org.hibernate.engine.CascadingAction$5.cascade(CascadingAction.java:241)
[junit] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeToOne(Cascade.java:292)
[junit] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:240)
[junit] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:193)
[junit] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeCollectionElements(Cascade.java:320)
[junit] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeCollection(Cascade.java:266)
[junit] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeAssociation(Cascade.java:243)
[junit] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascadeProperty(Cascade.java:193)
[junit] at org.hibernate.engine.Cascade.cascade(Cascade.java:154)
[junit] at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.cascadeOnFlush(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:154)
[junit] at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.prepareEntityFlushes(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:145)
[junit] at org.hibernate.event.def.AbstractFlushingEventListener.flushEverythingToExecutions(AbstractFlushingEventListener.java:88)
[junit] at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener.onFlush(DefaultFlushEventListener.java:49)
[junit] at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.flush(SessionImpl.java:1028)
[junit] at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.managedFlush(SessionImpl.java:366)
[junit] at org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransaction.commit(JDBCTransaction.java:137)
[junit] at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager.doCommit(HibernateTransactionManager.java:656)


hbm-configurations are as follows -
<class
name="in.opencombine.life.Person"
table="PERSON"
dynamic-update="true">

<!-- Technical ID -->
<id name="id" type="string" unsaved-value="null" column="ID">
<generator class="assigned"/>
</id>

<version name="version" column="VERSION" unsaved-value="null"/>

<property name="birthday" not-null="true" column="BIRTHDAY" />

<property name="sex" column="SEX" type="SexOfBeings" />

<property name="demiseday" column="DEMISEDAY" />

<!-- Associations -->

<set name="contacts" table="CONTACT_ENTRY" lazy="false" cascade="all" inverse="true">
<key column="CONTACTABLE" />
<one-to-many class="in.opencombine.communication.ContactEntry" />
</set>
</class>

<class name="in.opencombine.communication.ContactEntry" table="CONTACT_ENTRY" dynamic-update="true" polymorphism="implicit" >

<!-- Technical ID -->
<id name="id" type="long" unsaved-value="null" column="ID">
<generator class="native"/>
</id>

<!-- Properties -->
<version name="version" column="VERSION" />

<property name="tag" column="TAG" />

<!-- Associations -->

<many-to-one name="contactable"
column="CONTACTABLE" not-null="false"
class="in.opencombine.life.Person"
/>

<joined-subclass name="in.opencombine.communication.AddressContactEntry" table="ADDRESS_CONTACT_ENTRY">
<key column="id"/>
<many-to-one name="address"
column="ADDRESS" cascade="persist,merge,save-update" not-null="true"
class="in.opencombine.places.Address"
/>
</joined-subclass>

<joined-subclass name="in.opencombine.communication.E_ContactEntry" table="E_CONTACT_ENTRY">
<key column="id"/>
<many-to-one name="eContact"
column="E_CONTACT" cascade="persist,merge,save-update" not-null="true"
class="in.opencombine.communication.E_Contact"
/>
</joined-subclass>

<joined-subclass name="in.opencombine.communication.TelephoneContactEntry" table="TELEPHONE_CONTACT_ENTRY">
<key column="id"/>
<many-to-one name="telephone"
column="TELEPHONE" cascade="save-update" not-null="true"
class="in.opencombine.communication.Telephone"
/>
</joined-subclass>

</class>