Hi,

I have a table I access with hibernate I need to do optimistic locking.

The table already has a timestamp field which needs to be updated,
although I read that timestamps are not the safe impl. of optimistic locking. So I though of inserting a new field and use hibernate version option to do the locking. but in this case I need to manually update the timestamp in the table.

so the question is the following, can I use BOTH on one class ?

I want Hibernate to update my timestamp as well as the version info.

how would this work with the locking together.

How if I just forget the version field, and use only the timestamp,

what are the downsides of the timestamp solution ?

Thanks a lot!

Istvan

I think hb doco has unnecessary FUD at this point, timestamps are fine.

Thanks!