[b]Hibernate version:hibernate3.0

[b]Name and version of the database you are using: Oracle 9.2.0

we have a set of Tables say A, B C, D. A has a one to many relation with B and B has a one to many relation wtih C and C has a one to many relation with D. these relations are established using collection bag. Also B has the primary key of A as column, C has the primary key of B as column and so on. When we do an Insert into A, we are able to insert in to all tables(A,B,C &D ) with a single save like session.save(A). Hibernate internally generates the insert and update statements for the session.save(A) for each table.

we have triggers that get fired when we do an update on this tables. These triggers need to be fired only when the update to table is done manually.

we would like to distinguish between an update that we manually call like session.saveOrUpdate(A) and the internally generated update statement.

I would like to know if any users have faced this issue and how they have handled this issue.

thank you

Srini