I want to session.save() an audit log from within an Interceptor. I 'd like to do this inside the same transaction so that the event intercepted and the audit trail are committed or rolled back as a unit.

Is this doable?

If not with interceptors, can I make it work with event listeners?

See if the following link helps :-

http://www.hibernate.org/318.html

On digging back into the previous forum messages, it also seems to be possible to build a transient sub-session from within an interceptor by doing tempSession = sessionFactory.openSession(mainSession.connection()); and remembering to manually tempSession.flush().

Supposedly this should put data into the same transaction but avoid stomping all over the non-threadsafe Session.