Confusion between JPA and Hibernate cascading

Question

I\'m using Hibernate 3.6 and have my code annotated (versus using hibernate mapping files). I ran into the known \"problem\" of using JPA cascading options that are not com

Answer 1

From Hibernate reference documentation

For each basic operation of the Hibernate session - including persist(), merge(), saveOrUpdate(), delete(), lock(), refresh(), evict(), replicate() - There is a corresponding cascade style

If you see CascadeType documentation, you will see each cascade style for each session operation

How do I decide whether to use JPA cascade options or the Hibernate @Cascade annotation instead ?

Prefer to use plain JPA cascade style when using a plain JPA application. If using Hibernate, prefer Hibernate cascade style