Hello,

What sould hibernate do in a situation like this to the result object?



Now, all of the loads and saves are in the same transaction without any flushes. After the first iteration of this loop, my number variable should be higher than it was before obviously. On the second attempt to do the load(), would I get the object with the number I just saved, or would I get the same object that I got during the first iteration of the loop?

This will always return the same instance.



This call is meaningless. It is only needed when you have a new unsaved object or an existing detached object. But .... doesn't Hibernate throw an exception here? The API docs says that it should if you call it with an object that is already associated with the session.