JPA - child insertion while parent updation is possible?

Hi Friends,
I've a usual scenario where parent has @OneToMany uni-directional relationship with child. And I specified the cascade type = ALL. So whenever I insert the parent its child recored also gets inserted and whenever I updated the parent the child recored also gets updated.

Is it possible to insert a set of new child records while updating the parent record?
And also is it possible to delete the child record while updating the parent record?

Thanks in advance

Vijay

What happened when you tried it?

1. Is it possible to insert a set of new child records while updating the parent record?
Sorry for this question, I tried and works fine. Yes its possible to insert a new child record while updating the parent record.

2. Is it possible to delete the child record while updating the parent record?
we've 3 tables as below
1. Parent
2. Child
3. Parent_Child

If I delete the child record while updating the parent the mapping in the table 'Parent_Child' alone gets deleted. But the child data in table 'Child' still exist.
In my scenario I want to delete the child record too.

If I delete the child record while updating the parent the mapping in the table 'Parent_Child' alone gets deleted. But the child data in table 'Child' still exist.
In my scenario I want to delete the child record too.

In the earlier versions delete orphan was not supported in JPA (http://www.coderanch.com/t/218171/ORM/java/all-delete-orphan-JPA).
I am not sure if this has been added in newer releases of JPA

Hi rancher, thanks for your idea.
Im using JPA 1.0. And orphanRemoval feature is available in JPA 2.0.