Specifies the persistence operations that should cascade to associated entity instances.

This annotation competes with the cascade member of JPA association mapping annotations, for example, with jakarta.persistence.OneToMany#cascade(). The only good reason to use it over the standard JPA approach is to enable lock cascading, by writing, for example, @Cascade(LOCK).

If an association specified cascade types using both the JPA association mapping annotations and this annotation, then the cascade types from the two sources are aggregated.