JSF 1.2 and Hibernate

Question

Hi,
I want ask, what I doing wrong... I have web aplication on JSF 1.2 with Hibernate. When I change data in database, application shows always old data. Change is made when I rebuild application. How can I fix this. Please help.
public class HibernateUtil {
private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory;
static {
try {
// Create the SessionFactory from standard (hibernate.cfg.xml)
// config file.
sessionFactory = new AnnotationConfiguration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
} catch (Throwable ex) {
// Log the exception.
System.err.println("Initial SessionFactory creation failed." + ex);
throw new ExceptionInInitializerError(ex);
public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
return sessionFactory;
public static void shutdown() {
getSessionFactory().close();
and class which read data:
public class UsersHelper {
Session session = null;
public UsersHelper()
this.session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();
public List<User> getUsersList() {
List<User> users = new ArrayList();
try {
Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
Query q = session.createQuery("from User order by name");
users = q.list();
} catch (Exception ex) {
//Log exception !
ex.printStackTrace();
return users;
Thank you.
Martin

Answer 1

your description is not detailed enough. Let me make a guess as what is happening.
You 'change data in database' - does this mean that you have some sort of webpage, for example with a form, and after you submit this data and perform an update using hibernate, when you go back to your website you still see the old data before the update was done?
The 'application shows old data'. We are probably talking about a specific page here. How are you retrieving and displaying this information? Show some snippets from your backing bean and your jsf web code.
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