Java – set hibernate ‘default cascade’ attribute globally

I'm using annotated spring and hibernate I want to set the default cascade attribute for all classes in my mapping file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN" "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping default-cascade="all"/>

After some debugging, it doesn't seem to work unless I explicitly define classes and attributes in the mapping file, because I'm dealing with comments elsewhere, which I really want to avoid Can default cascade be set globally without explicitly specifying properties?

Solution

You can set it on the configuration object Pseudo code

config = buildHibernateConfiguration();

for (ClassMap clazz : config.getClassMappings())
{
    clazz.getPropertyIterator();
}