Hi all,
Can anyone please let me know the exact use of naturalId in Hibernate
Is there any benefits to use naturalId ??

NaturalId implementation has vastly changed with hibernate4.1 (see http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/41FeatureLoadingByNaturalId?cid=1932981).
In prior versions the benefit is restricted to Criteria queries in combination with enabled second-level-cache and second-level-query-cache:
by declaring immutable NaturalId's and performin criteria query with the where-condition including exclusively those immutable NaturalId's,
then hibernate reuses an eventually cached-result-set, even if on regarding table in meantime modications has incured
(the check in UpdateTimestampsRegion can simply get skipped in that case).

Thank you very much pb00067 for your reply......
With hibernate 4.1 the its really beneficial to use natural id..............
right now working with it and everything working fine with great performance.........

Thanks once again. :))

Hi vishaltambe,

as thank-you please take a look into https://hibernate.onjira.com/browse/HHH-7206
and if you like my improvement request, please vote for it.

regards
G.