What is the meaning of the CascadeType.ALL for a @ManyToOne JPA association

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The meaning of CascadeType.ALL is that the persistence will propagate (cascade) all EntityManager operations (PERSIST, REMOVE, REFRESH, MERGE, DETACH) to the relating entities.

It seems in your case to be a bad idea, as removing an Address would lead to removing the related User. As a user can have multiple addresses, the other addresses would become orphans. However the inverse case (annotating the User) would make sense – if an address belongs to a single user only, it is safe to propagate the removal of all addresses belonging to a user if this user is deleted.

BTW: you may want to add a mappedBy="addressOwner" attribute to your User to signal to the persistence provider that the join column should be in the ADDRESS table.

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