removing entities from OneToMany relationship

[3.14r]

As has been pointed out by Emmanuel Bernard in http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=62238
the delete-orphand hibernate cascade isn't suported by the spec.

But shouldn't the child entity beans be at least orphaned when removing them from the collection on the parent side?

I have tried both uni and bi-directional mapping but the foreign key remains unchanged after parent.getChildren().remove(0).

Even more, merge() method returns parent entity without the removed child (as one would expect), which makes it inconsistent with the database.

[epbernard]

If you update the owner side whether the one ot the many side (ie not containing the mappedBy attribute), this is working AFAIK