Hibernate version: 3.0

I have certain entities that I don't want to be removed from database when delete is called on them rather they should set some column like isactive = 0

is there any better way to do it other than putting custom logic to set isactive = 0 in delete methods of DAO classes?

Use the <sql-delete> tag in your mapping to write custom code which updates the relevant field. Or use database triggers.

Apart from that you should modify your DAO layer so it works something like this:



Otherwise your presentation logic will be able to load entities that have been "deleted"

Yes ouzo... but I like Hibernate filters very helpful to do this for me. And the fact that hibernate doesn not apply filter when we load entities by id is really helpful. We never load starting entities in our applicaitons with IDs so we never happen to read an inactive entitry whose record has isActive set to zero.