public java.util.Date getFinished ()
   {
       return ( java.util.Date ) this.finished;
   }

   public void setFinished (java.util.Date finished)
   {
       this.finished = ( java.util.Date ) finished;
   }

public void setFinished (java.util.Date finished)
   {
       if ( finished != null)
       {   
           this.finished = new Date( finished.getTime() - ( finished.getTime() % 1000 ) );   
       }
   }

...
User user = new User();
user.setName( "Musicolo" );
....
session.save( user );
session.flush(); // Don't know why I have to do that manually
session.connection().commit() // Don't know have to do that manually

System.out.println( user.getCreated() ); // This prints: null

session.refresh( user );
System.out.prinln( user.getCreated() );// This prints: 01/03/2005 12:37:12.0

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration PUBLIC
      "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD//EN"
      "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">
<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory name="java:hibernate/SessionFactory">
       <!--Database conection data -->
        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:oracle:thin:@a.b.c.d:port:sid</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.username">username</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.password">topsecret</property>
        <property name="hibernate.default_schema">my_schema</property>
      
      <!-- Connection pool -->
      <property name="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">5</property>
      <property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">20</property>
      <property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">1800</property>
      <property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements">50</property>
        <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect</property>

        <!--Transaction strategy configuration-->
      <property name="jta.UserTransaction">java:comp/UserTransaction</property>
        <property name="hibernate.transaction.factory_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory</property>

<!--Other properties to determine whether they are needed
        <property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class">org.hibernate.transaction.OrionTransactionManagerLookup</property>
        <property name="hibernate.transaction.manager_lookup_class">org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup</property>
-->

      <!-- Other properties -->
        <property name="hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer">true</property>
        <property name="show_sql">false</property>
       
<!-- The properties are supposedly for allowing to write binary block bigger
     than 4KB in Oracle. Unfortunately, it doesn't work, at least in my tests.

      <property name="use_streams_for_binary">true</property>
      <property name="jdbc.batch_size">0</property>       
-->
       
        <!--Only for compliant ANSI databases like Oracle and Sysbase -->
        <property name="hibernate.max_fetch_depth">3</property>
       
             

    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>