advancedRelationships — @OneToMany, @ManyToOne, @ManyToMany, Cascade & FetchType

Why is defaulting every relationship to CascadeType.ALL a common real production mistake?

CascadeType.ALL propagates persist/merge/remove from parent to every child automatically — appropriate for genuine "part-of" ownership (an Order's LineItems), but applied broadly and by default, it can cause an accidental cascading delete on a relationship that was never meant to propagate removal, such as deleting a Customer because one of their many Orders was removed.

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