[Springframework-developer] flush() method on HibernateTemplate

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

Juergen,

We had a request on the forums (and I've seen this before) to add 
flush() as a method on HibernateTemplate. Of course, this would be 
completely useless (or superfluous) in the case there is no existing 
thread bound session (or at least an existing outer transaction to bind 
the new session to and keep it there afterwards). But most people do use 
HibernateTemplate in their DAOs with the expectation that the Session is 
already around or will be created and stay around, and it's probably 
reasonable to allow them to do a flush without having to use 
HibernateCallback, since they could have just done a one-off operation 
like save() and then want to ensure that changes go out, for example 
when combining with JDBC based operations in a DAO.

What do you think?