[hibernate-users] [ENVERS]: how to create a revision on parent entity if I update only a property on a child.

Hello, Envers is a very good solution for auditing changes in your database and the query Envers API is also very intuitive. However, I have a case which doesn't work. For information, I use the JBoss EAP server in version 6.3.3 (including hibernate-core and hibernate-envers modules in version 4.2.21.Final-redhat-1). I would like to have a revision on the parent entity if I update only a property on a child. On stackoverflow web site, this problem is mentioned: * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27420161/envers-audits-parent-entity-w... * http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10121103/hibernate-envers-retrieving-t... I'm looking for a better solution than the given one (to add a persistent field containing the timestamp). Now, is there an alternative solution ? I tried to add a non persistent boolean property in my parent entity called "forceUpdate", false by default. In the subclass, before update, I set the forceUpdate property value to true in the parent entity. Next, via an hibernate interceptor, I wrote the following code: @Override public int[] findDirty(Object entity, Serializable id, Object[] currentState, Object[] previousState, String[] propertyNames, Type[] types) { int[] res = null; if (entity instanceof IAuditChange) { final IAuditChange iac = (IAuditChange)entity; if (iac.isForceUpdate()) { res = new int[] { 1 }; } } return res; } This mechanism triggers the update in the parent entity but there is no revision in the audit/envers table. how to obtain a revision on parent entity if I update only a property on a child ? Thank's a lot for your answer, Fabien