Hibernate version: 3.1

Hello,

I have what I hope is a simple question:

I have Hibernate Objects all with optimistic-lock="version" set (ie. using Hibernate's Automatic Versioning). If I read an object from the database, then modify that object, I would have expected its version to be automatically incremented immediately (I received this impression from the documentation). But it looks to me like the version is only incremented after a Flush.

Is this true? Are versions only incremented after the data has been flushed to the database?

thanks!

The version is incremented when the actual sql update is being made. All updates usually happen at transaction commit (or earlier if the amount of changes is substantial). You can always force your updates with session flush.

Please rate if that helped.

Thanks for that, but I was actually hoping for a more complete answer. I have definitely seen the version incremented without the flush happening.

I may be using versioning for something it isn't meant to be used for. I was assuming if an object changed within the first level cache that the version would be incremented automatically.