Why won't JPA delete owned entities when the owner entity loses the reference to them?
- by Nick
Hi!
I've got a JPA entity "Request", that owns a List of Answers (also JPA entities). Here's how it's defined in Request.java:
@OneToMany(cascade= CascadeType.ALL, mappedBy="request")
private List<Answer> answerList;
And in Answer.java:
@JoinColumn(name = "request", referencedColumnName="id")
@ManyToOne(optional = false)
private Request…