Hibernate version 3.1, XML Mapping, jdk 1.5

My application is a read only data pull and the data is update elsewhere outside of Hibernate. However I need to have Hibernate pull the new record when it is added to the table.

I clear the session before the refresh and that will bring back updated records. But new records are not returned.

I'm sure the answer for my question is out there some where but I'm having trouble finding it. If you have an answer or know where I can find it I would be grateful.

Thanks in advance

You must be using second level caching and in that case you need to do sessionFactory.evict() to clear it. The session.evict() API just gets rid of first level caching, that one is discarded at the end of the session anyway.