Mark, Not using the standard implementation, as there may be times when a user would wish to set a column to null.
D. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Volkmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 March 2007 19:31 To: user-java@ibatis.apache.org Subject: DAO update with partial model objects I'm using Spring DAOs generated by Abator. Is it the case that I can pass a partially populated model object to a Spring DAO update method and it will only update the corresponding columns that have non-null values in my model object, leaving the other columns set to their current value?