title: Can Hibernate update a single property?
body: <p>I have a hibernate class with more than one property, I have heard that NHibernate tracks properties in files and only updates those properties that have changed. Is there similar functionality in Hibernate? </p>
  
  <p>I have tried to get it to work using just a simple class load - then set one property - then flush changes. However this without fail updates all the properties in the class. </p>