Hibernate version: 2.1.7
Name and version of the database you are using: MySQL 4.0.23

How do I configure the Hibernate to recognize all changes done by external events in the database ?

My configuration is only:
props.put("hibernate.show_sql","false");
props.put("hibernate.dialect","net.sf.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect");
props.put("hibernate.transaction.factory_class","net.sf.hibernate
transaction.JDBCTransactionFactory");

Thanks,

Glauber Andrade

Nobody??

Maybe if we had some idea what you are talking about...

I have a system using Hibernate and the database also is modified by an external system.

I would like to know how to configure the Hibernate so that it recognizes the modifications made in the database.

The current configuration it not "refresh" and it keeps an old image of the base.

Yes that is true.

Caching data from a database to which your application does not have exclusive access is a *bad* idea.

Hibernate does not just periodically query the database to look for stale data (you do of course realize the performance cost this would mean, right?).

What you need here is some locking strategy, either pessimistic or optimisitic.