public Cascade(CascadingAction action,
    int cascadeTo,
    EventSource eventSource) 
{
		this.cascadeTo = cascadeTo;
		this.eventSource = eventSource;
		this.action = action;
}

 public  void cascade(EntityPersister persister,
    Object parent) throws HibernateException 
{
		cascade( persister, parent, null );
}

Cascade an action from the parent entity instance to all its children.

 public  void cascade(EntityPersister persister,
    Object parent,
    Object anything) throws HibernateException 
{
		if ( persister.hasCascades() || action.requiresNoCascadeChecking() ) { // performance opt
			if ( log.isTraceEnabled() ) {
				log.trace( "processing cascade " + action + " for: " + persister.getEntityName() );
			}
			Type[] types = persister.getPropertyTypes();
			CascadeStyle[] cascadeStyles = persister.getPropertyCascadeStyles();
			EntityMode entityMode = eventSource.getEntityMode();
			boolean hasUninitializedLazyProperties = persister.hasUninitializedLazyProperties( parent, entityMode );
			for ( int i=0; i< types.length; i++) {
				CascadeStyle style = cascadeStyles[i];
				if ( hasUninitializedLazyProperties && persister.getPropertyLaziness()[i] && ! action.performOnLazyProperty() ) {
					//do nothing to avoid a lazy property initialization
					continue;
				}
				if ( style.doCascade( action ) ) {
					cascadeProperty(
					        persister.getPropertyValue( parent, i, entityMode ),
					        types[i],
					        style,
					        anything,
					        false
					);
				}
				else if ( action.requiresNoCascadeChecking() ) {
					action.noCascade(
							eventSource,
							persister.getPropertyValue( parent, i, entityMode ),
							parent,
							persister,
							i
					);
				}
			}
			if ( log.isTraceEnabled() ) {
				log.trace( "done processing cascade " + action + " for: " + persister.getEntityName() );
			}
		}
}

Cascade an action from the parent entity instance to all its children. This form is typicaly called from within cascade actions.