hi,

I've worked thru the first hibernate app but am slightly confused about transactions. In the web app version this line appears at start of doGet

// Begin unit of work
HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().beginTransaction();

and commit at end of doGet:
ibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession().getTransaction().commit();


But what if i dont want everything in between in a transaction?

is it possible to do an insert/update in hibernate3 without it being in a transaction?

Everything you do with a database is within a transaction, you just might not have noted it. Working outside a transaction would mean that you have the chance ending up with corrupted data. For example if you could do an update without a transaction it would be ok for the update to update 5 of 10 records and then canceling the rest with some kind of exception.