According to hibernate documentation.

>> Hibernate does guarantee that the Query.list(..) will never return stale data; nor will they return the wrong data.

by any chance does this mean that session.load() and session.refresh() will never return stale data?

Thank
DuKot

Session.refresh won't return stale data, but load/get might, if some other app or session has made a change since the object was put into the current session's cache. It is of course guaranteed not to be stale if it's not already in the session cache, so if at any point it's essential that your next read not be stale, you can call session.clear() first. That will clear the cache and guarantee that subsequent reads won't return stale objects.