I've a problem with hibernate cache that anytime I update the data manually in database, the changes are not reflected until I start tomcat. Also, the saveOrUpdate() works fine but still cannot fetch it until the web server is restarted.

any suggestions?
Thanks

Well, how could the changes be reflected if hibernate doesn't know anything about your changes, so the caching of hibernate gets useless.

I suggest you use "select before update" or better yet don't do any changes to your data at all outside of hibernate.

And better go reading the docs, this question would have been answered with ease...

use method org.hibernate.session.refresh(Object object) to load DB's current state to hibernate object.