Have you thought about doing this with a trigger in your database? Do you need to record the user's information along with this auditing? I've done this with Event Listeners in the past.
Matt On 12/13/07, Rob Hills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm using AppFuse 2.0 + Struts2 + Hibernate. > > I need to timestamp all of my persisted data. > > I have a base model class that includes a "lastUpdated" attribute and I > was hoping to be able to annotate it with something that would tell > Hibernate to timestamp it whenever it was saved to the DB, much as you > would do with an "After Update" trigger. > > I've been hunting through the Hibernate documentation to see if it has > any "automatic" way of doing this, but haven't turned up anything > obvious. Hibernate has an @Temporal annotation, but AFAICT, it simply > provides a direction about the persisted datatype. > > Is there any way to "automate" this or will I have to do it myself in > the DAO? If I have to do it myself in the DAO, I assume the most > efficient way will be to have a base DAO class that sits between > GenericDao and my own Dao's and have it do the timestamping. > > TIA, > > Rob Hills > Waikiki, Western Australia > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
