Hi all,

I have been using Hibernate 3.2 for a while and I think I have fairly understood how it works but I still have many questions ...

In fact, in some algorithms, I just need to compare old values and new values but I can't find an easy way to do that.
The only way I found is to load and evict my object at the beginning of my method.

But this would be even better if I could load old values whenever I want in my code. Is there some kind of way to load an object directly from the database, not from the session ?

Thanks in advance for your help