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Hibernate version:hibernate2

Name and version of the database you are using:Oracle

I am using hibernate in a web based application. I am using jboss3.2.5 web server.
I have a table with 5 columns. The data in the table is not going to change. it is a static data. So I want to get the data only once when the server starts. Enumeration is one solution but I cannot use it since I need the values from all the 5 columns and enumeration provides only 2 id and description.

Can anyone please help in solving this problem.

Hibernate's Second Level Cache.

It will retrieve it once from the DB, and every time after that from the cache.

Read Chapter 19 of the docs.

if you create your database from hibernate you can use
<database-source>
<create>
INSERT INTO ....
</create>
<drop>
</drop>
</database-source>

into your <hibernate-mapping> tag, after of the <class> tag.

Another solution is to use a file named import.sql, with your inserts. This file must be on the classpath, and it will be loaded at the moment of the deploy.

Cathy