Hibernate versioning parent entity

Question

Consider two entities Parent and Child.

• Child is part of Parent\'s transient collection
• Child has a ManyToOne mapping to parent with FetchType.LAZY

Answer 1

i don't think you can force hibernate to increase a version number for a non-changed object, because it will just not do any db UPDATE query if nothing has changed (for obvious reasons).

you could do a nasty hack like adding a new field to the object and incrementing that manually, but personally that seems to be a waste of time and resources. i'd go with your explicit locking solution since that seems to give you what you want, without unnecessary hackery.