Update single table in Hibernate

[eclipse]

I'm a newbie.

i have the following tables:
Person
person_oid (PK)
height
weight
country_oid (FK)
...

Country
country_oid (PK)
country_name
...

so I have the following object:
Person
personOid
height
weight
Country

if I only want to update height and weight, I still have to retrieve Country object and set to Person object, then call saveOrUpdate(person). Is there anyway I can update the Person object without issue a sql to get the Country object?

Thanks in advance!

[Marten Deinum]

Why would you need to have the country? Make sure that your mappings are correct and make lazy what can be lazy. Hibernate is smart enough to now if it needs to update a country then.

Also before updating an instance you probably retrieve it from the database, update its properties, and store it. If you do it that way, you don't have the problems you mentioned.

[karldmoore]

You probably don't even need to save the item, all you need to do is retrieve it and change the values.
http://www.hibernate.org/hib_docs/v3...ate-transitive