The interceptors callback methods concerning transactions
(i.e. afterTransactionBegin, afterTransactionCompletion)
are not properly called when using Hibernate within CMT context.
Is this by accident or not?
I want to implement an event system which only fires if
an entity physically changes, i.e. if the transaction is commited.
Without these callbacks it seems hardly possible.

Btw, I am using Hibernate 3.0.5

We are not running Hibernate 3, but we have integrated Hibernate with JBoss using the HibernateContext, enabling the Interceptor by configuring the Hibernate MBean (hibernate-service.xml)

Using this configuration, we implemented a simple Logging Utility based on the Interceptor example section 8.3.2 Audit Logging in the book Hibernate Action (Bauer/King).

Basically the only thing we had to change was to create an unmanaged session using the HibernateContext. By doing this, I don’t think you need to explicitly handle the transactions.

Thanks for the answer.

I want to use the application server's transaction context.
Therefor I have to use managed Hibernate sessions.
So this seems to be no solution.
Or did I understand you wrong?

Best,
Michael