title: Force update in Hibernate
body: <p>How can I force Hibernate to update an entity instance even if the entity is <em>not</em> dirty? I'm using Hibernate 3.3.2 GA, Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager btw. I really want Hibernate to execute the generic UPDATE statement even if no property on the entity has changed.</p>
  
  <p>I need this because some event listeners need to get invoked to do some additional work when the application runs for the first time. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>