Is it possible to detach Hibernate entity, so that changes to object are not automatically saved to database?

Question

I have Hibernate entity that I have to convert to JSON, and I have to translate some values in entity, but when I translate values, these values are instantly saved to datab

Answer 1

I am also converting hibernate entities to JSON.

The bad thing when you close the session you cannot lazy load objects. For this reason you can use

hSession.setDefaultReadOnly(true);

and close the session after when you're done with the JSON.