What is transaction.commit() in Hibernate?

Question

What does transaction.commit() do?

Account account = new Account();
account.setId(100);
account = (Account) session.get(Account.class, accou         


        

Answer 1

Commit will make the database commit. The changes to persistent object will be written to database. Flushing is the process of synchronizing the underlying persistent store with persistant state held in memory. ie. it will update or insert into your tables in the running transaction, but it may not commit those changes (this depends on your flush mode).

When you have a persisted object and you change a value on it, it becomes dirty and hibernate needs to flush these changes to your persistence layer. It may do this automatically for you or you may need to do this manually, that depends on your flush mode(auto or manual) :)

So in short: transaction.commit() does flush the session, but it also ends the unit of work.

There is a similar reference to your problem here

Answer 2

No matter what you'll do, write operations can't be done outside a transaction, Hibernate will complain if there is no ongoing transaction and throw an exception. So no choice here.

I am adding to that above quote by @pasacal : And that won't be effect DB untill you commit the transaction .

For more reference How expensive is committing a hibernate transaction?