Hibernate currently only seems to support SQL SELECT's ( via Session.createSQLQuery() ). Are there any plans for implementing INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE complements to the existing SQL API ?

Regards,
Tim Saker

Do you bulk functionality? Like adding 15% to _all_ product costs through an UPDATE statement? Probably not. Thats not really the purpose of an O/R tool.

Hibernate does support such a construct for bulk deletions using the Session.delete( String query ) method.

Yes - I see your point! Perhaps I should elaborate on the problem my team is trying to solve, and see if there is a way Hibernate can accomodate.

From a seperation of concerns and application maintenence standpoint, it would be desirable for my project team to seperate the relational language from our java code and, optionally, externalize that language ( i.e. XML'ize it ).

SQL statements, along with variable substitution, permit this approach quite nicely. Hibernate currently only supports the SQL SELECT methodology via the Query interface ( well, Hibernate's mutation of SQL anyway :=) ).

Regards,
Tim Saker