Hibernate: Removing item from a List does not persist

Question

I am having trouble when removing an item from a list. The list is defined in a superclass, but the Hibernate annotations are applied to property accessors in a subclass. Th

Answer 1

You have to explicitly specify cascade as CascadeType.DELETE_ORPHAN.

Try to change code to

@OneToMany    
@Cascade(cascade = {CascadeType.ALL, CascadeType.DELETE_ORPHAN}, mappedBy = "temporal")

Part from hibernate docs:

If the child object's lifespan is bounded by the lifespan of the parent object, make the parent a full lifecycle object by specifying CascadeType.ALL and org.hibernate.annotations.CascadeType.DELETE_ORPHAN (please refer to the Hibernate reference guide for the semantics of orphan delete)