[hibernate-dev] RE: [Hibernate] Session.replicate() into IDENTITY table ?

Not sure if anyone replied to this yet or not, so I'll throw my $0.02 into the discussion. I think all that is needed is to better allow definition of what is to occur during replication in the method call. For example, consider the changing the signature from accepting a ReplicationMode to accepting a (new) "ReplicationStrategy", where ReplicationStrategy is defined something like: ReplicationStrategy { /** * How should we react when we encounter a pre-existing row * in the target database? * <p/> * TODO: probably rename the ReplicationMode class to MergeMode */ public ReplicationMode getMergeMode() ... /** * When replicating an entity which does not yet occur in the * target database, should we enforce that the target data * we are about to create have the same identifier value? */ public boolean forceIdentiferRetention() ... } Also, there has been some discussion about moving the replicate functionality from the Session interface to the StatelessSession interface which would be a good point in time to introduce such