@Override
    @Transactional
    public void saveOrUpdate(ElementData elementData)
    {
   Element element = elementData.getElement();
   if (element != null)
   {
           hibernateTemplate.saveOrUpdate(element);
      hibernateTemplate.saveOrUpdate(elementData);
   } else
   {
       hibernateTemplate.saveOrUpdate(elementData);
   }
    }

.............
}

@Override
    public void saveOrUpdate(ElementData elementData)
    {
   Element element = elementData.getElement();
   if (element != null)
   {
       Session currentSession = sessionFactory.openSession();
       currentSession.beginTransaction();
       try
       {
      currentSession.saveOrUpdate(element);
      currentSession.saveOrUpdate(elementData);
       } catch (Exception e)
       {
      currentSession.getTransaction().rollback();
      throw e;
       }
       currentSession.getTransaction().commit();
   } else
   {
       hibernateTemplate.saveOrUpdate(elementData);
   }
    }

@Entity
public class ElementData implements Serializable
{

    public static final String DIRECT_JS_CALL = "DIRECT_JS_CALL";

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 6730581106117198964L;

    @Id
    @GeneratedValue
    private Integer id;

    @Column(name = "locatorType", unique = false, nullable = false)
    @Enumerated(EnumType.ORDINAL)
    private LocatorType locatorType;

    @Column(name = "locator", unique = false, nullable = false)
    private String locator;

    @Column(name = "frame", unique = false, nullable = true)
    private String frame;

    @Column(name = "language", unique = false, nullable = false)
    @Enumerated(EnumType.ORDINAL)
    private Language language;

    @ManyToOne(cascade =
    { CascadeType.ALL })
    @JoinColumn(name = "elementId", unique = false, nullable = false)
    private Element element;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "updatedBy", unique = false, nullable = false)
    private User updatedBy;

    @Column(name = "updatedDate", unique = false, nullable = true, columnDefinition = "timestamp")
    private String updatedDate;

    @ManyToOne
    @JoinColumn(name = "releaseId", unique = false, nullable = false)
    private ReleaseEntity releaseEntity;
......
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
   xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
   http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd">

   <context:annotation-config />
   <context:component-scan base-package="com.livenation.automation.dao" />
   <tx:annotation-driven />

   <bean
      class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
      <property name="location">
         <value>database.properties</value>
      </property>
   </bean>

   <bean id="myDataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource">
      <property name="url" value="${db.url}" />
      <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver" />
      <property name="username" value="${db.username}" />
      <property name="password" value="${db.password}" />
   </bean>

   <bean id="mySessionFactory"
      class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
      <property name="dataSource" ref="myDataSource" />
      <property name="annotatedClasses">
         <list>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.Domain</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.Element</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.ElementData</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.Step</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.TestCase</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.TestSuite</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.User</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.ElementDataHistory</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.DomainSpecificTestcase</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.DomainLanguage</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.ReleaseEntity</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.RunEmail</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.RunEntity</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.StepHistory</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.DataPool</value>
            <value>com.livenation.automation.bean.SchedulingSettings</value>
         </list>
      </property>
      <property name="hibernateProperties">
         <props>
            <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">false</prop>
            <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">validate</prop>
         </props>
      </property>
   </bean>

   <bean id="transactionManager"
      class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
      <property name="dataSource" ref="myDataSource" />
      <property name="sessionFactory" ref="mySessionFactory" />
   </bean>

</beans>