Hey guys,

Somewhat of a 'newbie' question as for better understanding the best practices.

I want to build a small web application which just allows a web interface to update a db schema. Nothing complicated about that. Now I have used hibernate in the past but not with DAO's and it was a read-only app. Since this application is very small(ie, terms of the db size, and use) I want to KISS and not overload it with a bunch of frameworks.

The first question relates to best use of hibernate/DAO method. In my db schema I have 8 tables which represents unique values but the table structure for these 8 tables are exactly the same(id, desc, date, active) then those 8 tables are bound in many:many, many:one, etc... within other child/parent tables.

How/what/where/when are some examples to implement something generic for updating those tables in hibernate using the DAO approach.

Just duplicate you mapping and use
session.saveOrUpdate(object); etc...