DMS: Preventing trigger execution during synchronization

 I am using Oracle Lite and Mobile Server to provide mobile copies of an application to a small set of users.  Each user gets a full set of all the data that is entered and changed by every other user. Each table used by the application has a primary key field that is generated from a sequence by a before-insert trigger. The trigger also sets a timestamp on the record for auditing purposes. The before-insert triggers call Oracle Lite wrapper procedures that call the actual Java-based trigger code.
Here's a sample of a Java method that is being called by the trigger: