I know the answer by @Pascal Thivent has solved the issue. I would like to add a bit more to his answer to others who might be surfing this thread.
If you are like me in the initial days of learning and wrapping your head around the concept of using the @OneToMany
annotation with the 'mappedBy
' property, it also means that the other side holding the @ManyToOne
annotation with the @JoinColumn
is the 'owner' of this bi-directional relationship.
Also, mappedBy
takes in the instance name (mCustomer
in this example) of the Class variable as an input and not the Class-Type (ex:Customer) or the entity name(Ex:customer).
BONUS :
Also, look into the orphanRemoval
property of @OneToMany
annotation. If it is set to true, then if a parent is deleted in a bi-directional relationship, Hibernate automatically deletes it's children.