/**
 * Copyright © 2011-2013 EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.  
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package uk.ac.ebi.phenotype.dao;

/**
 * 
 * Parent data access manager interface.
 * 
 * @author Gautier Koscielny (EMBL-EBI) <koscieln@ebi.ac.uk>
 * @since February 2012
 */

import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Collection;

import org.hibernate.Session;

/**
 * Please add a description about HibernateDAO.java
 */

public interface HibernateDAO {

	public Session getSession();
	
	@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
	public Collection executeNativeQuery(String sql) throws SQLException;
	
}

/**
 * Copyright © 2011-2013 EMBL - European Bioinformatics Institute
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.  
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */
package uk.ac.ebi.phenotype.dao;

/**
 * 
 * Parent data access manager interface.
 * 
 * @author Gautier Koscielny (EMBL-EBI) <koscieln@ebi.ac.uk>
 * @since February 2012
 */

import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.Collection;

import org.hibernate.Session;

/**
 * Please add a description about HibernateDAO.java
 */

public interface HibernateDAO {

	public Session getSession();
	
	public void flushAndClearSession();
	
	@SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
	public Collection executeNativeQuery(String sql) throws SQLException;
	
}

Add a flush and clear method for batch upload.