Hi,

I believe (and someone needs to confirm), in case of "table per subclass" strategy, when an object is to be fetched with some lock on data, Hibernate will acquire lock on data in all the tables of its class hierarchy.

Do locks cascade to associated objects during fetch? I tried to make out from the reference manual, but I found little information there unless I missed something.

Information on this would help in understanding effects of locking.

Thanks,
Jay