I think its better to use Hibernate Interceptors to do this http://www.hibernate.org/318.html View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4089632#4089632 Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&p=4089632