Hibernate ORM OptimisticLocking Behavior

Hi Team,

I have a ParentDO with @OneToMany to a List using mappedBy and ChildDO has @ManyToOne to the ParentDO.

I want @ Version annotation on the ParentDO only.

According to my observation, the EntityManager.merge(parentDO) operation is inconsistent and updates the version in ParentDO intermittently ( Not sure due to this “bidirectional child-owning-side-parent association mapping” or what )

Can anyone please answer on when hibernate will update the version considering we have this DO relationship.

Please please help

Thank you
shibha