How do I delete orphan entities using hibernate and JPA on a many-to-many relationship?

Question

I want to delete orphan entities using hibernate and JPA on a many-to-many relationship but all that I found was this attribute the attribute. org.hibernate.annotations.Casc

Answer 1

try this:

@ManyToMany(cascade = CascadeType.ALL, orphanRemoval=true, fetch = FetchType.LAZY, mappedBy = "yourObject")