Hello,

I'm new to hibernate and I'm not sure how to change the following behavior.

When I run a query and get the unique result I get the same instance each time the query is called. For example,

Criteria criteria=Session.createCriteria(Person.class);
criteria.add(Restriction.eq("Id",1));
Person p=criteria.uniqueResult();
System.out.println(p.getName()+" "p.toString());

generates
John Smith Person@f961d5

At another point in the application I perform the same query and I get the same person, which is correct, but I also get the same instance of the Person object. So the output would also say

John Smith Person@f961d5

Not
John Smith Person@b764a1

for example. So how do I get the same person object in two different instances of Person?

I hope this makes sense,

Thanks,
Joe

make sure your equals and hashcode methods are implemented per the following...
http://hibernate.org/109.html

Thank you very much for that article. It really cleared up what hibernate is doing under the covers. I had to make a wrapper for the hibernate class so that I can get unique instances each time. The wrapper will store custom values that are not intended to be written to the database and maintains the concept of one instance per record per session.

Thanks,