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I am a beginer. I am trying to understand how the mapping, Session, Session factory, Configuration work together. From the documentation, I understand that Session Factory is immutable. But what I am looking for is to be able to modify the Mapping at runtime and have this mapping affect the CRUD operations I perfrom. For example, I want to be able to add new field to the table and have that new field available for CRUD opeartion all while the application is still running. I want to understand the class diagram for the related classes so that I can intercept in appropraite place to reset the configuration information. Can any one point me to any documentation / any tutorials on these?

Necessary general links:
http://www.hibernate.org/elqNow/elqRedi ... erence.pdf
http://hibernate.org/5.html

So far your specific question goes, I can remember that it is possible to modify the mapping at run time and I got it in the book "Hibernate in Action"...howver I exactly do not remeber which chapter/page it links to...if I can locate it I wil let u know