Hi!

Is there any "dry run" functionality by option in Hibernate so that I can see what would happen if I commit - without saving the data?

would calling session.flush() but dont commit work for you ?

Right now I do it in an explicit way and I don't commit the entries But Hibernate only checks database contstrains after I have commited a transaction for example.

That means I only get specific error messages like foreign constraints after committing.

eh? most constraints should be chekked by your database.

I dont recall we should do any checkking whatsoever at commit time.

/max