Basically I've got the below schema and I'm inserting records if they don't exists. However when it comes to inserting a duplicate it throws and error as I would expect. My question is whether there is an easy way to make Hibernate to just ignore inserts which would in effect insert duplicates?

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `method` (
  `id` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
  `name` varchar(10) DEFAULT NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
  UNIQUE KEY `name` (`name`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM  DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1 AUTO_INCREMENT=2 ;


SEVERE: Duplicate entry 'GET' for key 'name'
Exception in thread "pool-11-thread-4" org.hibernate.exception.ConstraintViolationException: could not insert: