I apologize for posting this as I assume it must have been discussed before, however, I haven't been able to find anything in my searches.

I'm trying to understand my options for mapping to a table that maintains it's history within itself. So the table has a CreateDate column, every update isn't a sql update but an insert. The current application then finds and returns the active record by finding the maximum CreateDate column with the specific id.

I realize I can do this through hql or criteria but is there anyway to do this through mapping?

I just found the timestamp tag,

http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/nhibe ... -timestamp

I still have to read it but maybe this is what I'm after.