dear all,

i am using Hibernate 3.5.4 final with Annotations Configuration
although I implemented the methods equals() and hashCode()
in the persistence classes they are not called by hibernate.
I inserted some print-outs, but nothing is written on console. Also
when putting breakpoints, they are never reached.

The classes are using the annotations:
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@Entity
@Inheritance(strategy = InheritanceType.JOINED)
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and several OneToOne-Realations defined like:
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@OneToOne(cascade = CascadeType.ALL,fetch = FetchType.LAZY)
private Property property;
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What could i do that hibernate uses equals and hashCode methods?
Is there anything i should configure in the hibernate.cfg.xml file?

thanking you very much in advance for your help

best regards Malcom

Hi Malcome,

If the entity in persisted state, hibernate makes use of the equals & hashcode method and it checks the equality of the natural key present in database rather than checking all the properties. This is one of the feature hibernate does by its own.