For retrieving and updating data the same ideas apply. In addition, you need to use scroll()
to take advantage of server-side cursors for queries that return many rows of data.
Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
ScrollableResults customers = session.getNamedQuery("GetCustomers")
.setCacheMode(CacheMode.IGNORE)
.scroll(ScrollMode.FORWARD_ONLY);
int count=0;
while ( customers.next() ) {
Customer customer = (Customer) customers.get(0);
customer.updateStuff(...);
if ( ++count % 20 == 0 ) {
//flush a batch of updates and release memory:
session.flush();
session.clear();
}
}
tx.commit();
session.close();