Hibernate Save Object to Multiple Sessions

Question

I am attempting to write to multiple databases using hibernate. I have encapsulated write and read/write sessions within a single session object. However, when I go to sav

Answer 1

The saveOrUpdate tries to reattach a given Entity to the current running Session, so Proxies (LAZY associations) are bound to the Hibernate Session. Try using merge instead of saveOrUpdate, because merge simply copies a detached entity state to a newly retrieved managed entity. This way, the supplied arguments never gets attached to a Session.

Another problem is Transaction Management. If you use Thread-bound Transaction, then you need two explicit transactions if you want to update two DataSources from the same Thread.

Try to set the transaction boundaries explicitly too:

public class MultiSessionObject implements Session {

   private Session writeOnlySession;
   private Session readWriteSession;

   @Override
   public void saveOrUpdate(Object arg0) throws HibernateException {

        Transaction readWriteSessionTx = null;
        try {
            readWriteSessionTx = readWriteSession.beginTransaction();
            readWriteSession.merge(arg0);
            readWriteSessionTx.commit();
        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
            if ( readWriteSessionTx != null && readWriteSessionTx.isActive() ) 
                readWriteSessionTx.rollback();
            throw e;
        }

        Transaction writeOnlySessionTx = null;
        try {
            writeOnlySessionTx = writeOnlySession.beginTransaction();
            writeOnlySession.merge(arg0);
            writeOnlySessionTx.commit();
        } catch (RuntimeException e) {
            if ( writeOnlySessionTx != null && writeOnlySessionTx.isActive() ) 
                writeOnlySessionTx.rollback();
            throw e;
        }
   }
}