It isn't usually; not unless you have toplevel collections...
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From: Dave Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 4 December 2002 4:09 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Hibernate] Re: Hibernate vs. Castor example
In the Hibernate implementation
Hmm - isn't this idiom inefficient ?
Doesn't parent.getChildren().add() (or any method on the collection)
result
in loading all the children ?
I am planning to make same small changes so that add() and remove()
*don't* force initialization of a readonly=true collection. I should
have done
I made a number of small changes to get my example
working on HSQL with cascading deletes, then when
I switched back to MySQL cascading deletes worked
there as well!
So yes, cascading deletes work on MySQL.
I'd like my example to be using Hybernate in the
best way possible (under the constraints