Hibernate 4.2.14.SP1 cascading problem

Issue

• While migrating from jboss 4 to jboss 6 manage some test to verify compatibily.
• One of this test using a Spring Context create an Hibernate Session and with groovy manages some entity bean ,doing queries and saving data in db.

• With Hibernate 3 plus envers there were no problem. With Hibernate 4 plus the built in envers we have a cascade save which causes performance problem.

• There are three entities :
  1 . Appointment
2 . Patient
3 . PatientEncounter

Appointment has a one-to-many relation to Patient. PAtient has a one-to-many relation to PatienEncounter.

• Usually create a new Appointment, then link the Patient and persist the Appointment. With Hibernate 4 it seeems the cascade works properly from appointment to the Patient, but the it starts iterating on Patient PatientEncounter List (which can be many)