I've set up a simple many-to-many relationship account : role with Hibernate but when I try to save an account in a unit test after it has had its role added I get an UnsupportedOperationException:

java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException
    at java.util.AbstractList.remove(AbstractList.java:144)
    at java.util.AbstractList$Itr.remove(AbstractList.java:360)
    at java.util.AbstractList.removeRange(AbstractList.java:559)
    at java.util.AbstractList.clear(AbstractList.java:217)
    at org.hibernate.type.CollectionType.replaceElements(CollectionType.java:502)
    at org.hibernate.type.CollectionType.replace(CollectionType.java:582)
    at org.hibernate.type.TypeHelper.replace(TypeHelper.java:178)
    at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.copyValues(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:563)
    at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.entityIsPersistent(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:288)
    at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.onMerge(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:261)
    at org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultMergeEventListener.onMerge(DefaultMergeEventListener.java:84)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.fireMerge(SessionImpl.java:867)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.merge(SessionImpl.java:851)
    at org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl.merge(SessionImpl.java:855)
    at org.hibernate.ejb.AbstractEntityManagerImpl.merge(AbstractEntityManagerImpl.java:686)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.springframework.orm.jpa.SharedEntityManagerCreator$SharedEntityManagerInvocationHandler.invoke(SharedEntityManagerCreator.java:240)
    at $Proxy33.merge(Unknown Source)
    at org.springframework.data.jpa.repository.support.SimpleJpaRepository.save
hibernate jpa many-to-many
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