I've looked through the documentation and i'm struggling to get a clear handle on this.

I've got an app that is supposed to monitor a db table. Whn another app inserts a row into that table, my app reads the data, processes it, and pushes it out to a third party.

I could write a manual process, where I poll the DB regularly and check angainst a set of persisted objects, and figure out inserts, updates and deletes, but I was wondering if Hibernate could do this for me?

Kinda like I supply some class that has update(), delete() and insert() methods that receive an object representing the affect row, and hibernate will call it for me?

Does such a thing exist within hibernate?

Have a look at
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... vents.html

Intereceptors are the way to go

Greetz,
Pjotr