Invalidating JPA EntityManager session

Question

A project I am working on uses Spring 2.5 & JPA with Hibernate as a provider.

My DAO classes extend JpaDaoSupport, so I get my JpaTemplate using the getJpaTempl

Answer 1

From an architectural point of view it is not a very good idea to let some other application bypass all your business logic and modify persistent data. It makes the ground beneath the feet of your application shaky in a lot of ways :)

Wouldn't it be a good idea to integrate with this other system in a more elegant way, for example by message processing or batch processing. Spring has great support for both of them.