[Hibernate-devel] Versioning via Timestamps

[Sven W. <s_...@in...>]

Hi,

just downloaded hibernate1.1 beta 6 and tried to build my own
hibernate.jar. I want you to know that "ant clean" wipes out the
directory hibernate is installed due to relative-path-addressing
problems (ok, thats easy to fix).

Feature Request:
It would be nice if hibernate could support versioning via timestamps.
This is not that important if you are dealing with a "fresh" schema but
in legacy schematas there is often a column indicating the last update
of the record. This column could be used to support hibernate long lived
transactions without changing one line of legacycode.
It is clear that using timestamps is not as exact/save as integers but if
there are not 100 people accessing the same record at the same time this
should work fairly well. Timesynchronization would be required of course
(e.g. NTP can provide accuracy below <1ms in a dedicated LAN).

TIA
  Sven