Hi Mike, Sometimes you just have to think in database terms. Your kids table has a foreign key field for the primary key of the table called parent. There is nothing in the parent table to give any indication of how many kids the specific parent has.
What this boils down to is this: just do a em.remove(kid) That will take care of the relationship to the parent. Don't do parent.getKids().remove(kid); Give it a go. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3953919#3953919 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=3953919 Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ JBoss-user mailing list JBoss-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jboss-user