On the wiki page Equals and HashCode under Why are equals() and hashcode() important, it states "Hibernate works hard to prevent you from having to worry about [the fact that your objects are being moved out of memory]" and that "whenever you query for an object and find that particular object, Hibernate should return you that instance of the object. And Hibernate will do just that."

Okay, I know this is a stupid question, but I want to make sure I understand this. As I read this, it seems to me that this means that so long as I am within the same session my objects are loaded in, I do not have to override .equals() and .hashCode() (as far as hibernate is concerned that is). The only time I need to override these for hibernate's purposes is if I plan to detatch my objects from the session and then reuse them (perhaps with .update()) in another session.

Is my understanding correct?

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Yep.

Thanks so much!