I am refactoring an existing application to use hibernate. Where deletes are concerned the backend only receives the id of the object to delete from the DB. It seems like a waste to use the id to get hibernate to create an instance so I can then ask hibernate to remove it!

Why does Session not have a method to delete by class and id? It seems that this might be a common thing to do..

What is the best way to do this currently with hibernate3?

you can simply create a query deleting your instance.

Regards Sebastian

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