i am having one master table which are connected to four child tables.

i have used many to one relationship with unique=true for specifying the realtionship for all four tables.

my scenario is like this

Insert - Insert into all child tables
Update - No update for child tables
Delete - not used in the application
Select - Select from all child tables

i have used lazy=false to fetch the details from master table.

currently i am using cascade = all for all tables and this is working fine for insert.

my isssue is that it updates the child tables also when i want to update the master table details alone. (my database connectivity is slow, so it does four unneccessary hits to the database)

is there any option to limit the cascade to insert only

cascade="persist" is the equivalent of cascading only during insert. Check out
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3/re ... transitive

nice solution but it does not solve my problem

it does not solve my problem as i have to use the save() method and not the persist(). i require the generated identifier to be displayed on the next page.

as i cannot use persist(), is there anyother way, all i can see is save or update() nothing for save() alone.