I've got columns for 'last update by' and 'last update timestamp' in many of my tables. The last update by is *not* the user logged into the database, it is the user logged into the web application.

I realize that, through code, I could constantly check values that are being updated in my pojos and set the fields manually when a user changes a value, and these adjustments would in turn be persisted to the database by hibernate.

But I'm wondering if there is some other method, as part of hibernate, that would be a better alternative.

Any suggestions?

You could perhaps leverage http://www.hibernate.org/48.html.

http://www.hibernate.org/48.html

Without the '.' this time :).