Hibernate Application-Level Repeatable Reads

A Hibernate persistence context can hold one and only one reference of a given entity. The first level cache guarantees session-level repeatable reads. If your Hibernate Session has already loaded a given entity then any successive entity query (JPQL/HQL) is going to return the very same object reference (disregarding the current loaded database snapshot):



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