Hi everybody,

Reading through some threads on this forum I have found out that people from the Hibernate Team state the following:



Ofcourse I understand the need for transactions when i'm updating persistent data, it's the read-only case that's troubling me :-)

Can anyone explain to me why I should use a transaction in a read-only databaseaction? Is the reason related to *other* databaseactions that are done within the lifetime of the same hibernate-session?

regards,
Hans

This has been discussed numerous times already, search the forum. There is no such thing as no transaction, and you should better do explicit handling.