Does Hibernate protect you from mutiple updates to the same table row by different users?
How would that work?
If I have the information in my object and someone else updates the row through Hibernate, I still have the old values don't I?
So if I add values to the old information (for instance updating a bank account balance) that I got at the time I retreived the rows information, am I not still overwriting the update done by the other user?

To begin with, read chapter 11.3 and 11.4 in the Hibernate documentation. And here is the link: http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/stable/ ... optimistic

Thank you.