@Entity
class Department {
....
}


@Entity
class Employee{

@ManyToOne
@NotFound(action=NotFoundAction.IGNORE)
public Department getDepartment()

}


Employee table refers to department table (foreign key).
When I tried to delete a department, I got an exception
"foreign key constraint violation"

I want Hibernate/database to ignore the constraints and delete the department. how?

How to tell Hibernate not to generate the foreign key constraints?
@NotFound(action=NotFoundAction.IGNORE) does not work for this purpose, only for reading, ignore when not found.


Thank you very much for your help.
Dave