ActionQueue hasParent() StackOverflowError in Hibernate

Issue

• Inserting/updating multiple entities of associated entity classes

• The following are set in the persistence.xml properties:

                      <property name="hibernate.order_inserts" value="true" />
                      <property name="hibernate.order_updates" value="true" />
  

• Encountering the StackOverflowError below

  Caused by: java.lang.StackOverflowError
      at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue$InsertActionSorter$BatchIdentifier.hasParent(ActionQueue.java:1093)
      at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue$InsertActionSorter$BatchIdentifier.hasParent(ActionQueue.java:1095)
      at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue$InsertActionSorter$BatchIdentifier.hasParent(ActionQueue.java:1095)
      at org.hibernate.engine.spi.ActionQueue$InsertActionSorter$BatchIdentifier.hasParent(ActionQueue.java:1095)