Hello.

I am very new to all this so dont slap me please and i realy need some help.
Basically my Problem is about too many connections using hibernate with netbeans IDE. They cant help me on netbeans forums so i hope to find advise here.

I guess ill have to tell the entire story.
I am working on a java database application. To be honest my application is not very complex and id rather be happy to not use any persistence because i am not familiar with hibernate and dont have that much time until deadline to dig it all out. Netbeans IDE however offers hibernate support and you dont have to set it all up yourself and take all the advantages of hibernate without knowing much about it.

Netbeans IDE does a good job and i am happy with the results. Everything is clicked together in few minutes and actualy it works. But there is one problem that bothers me. When my application starts to interact with the database it creates new jdbc connections but it doesnt close them when its done. After a while the server refuses any more connections due to too many of them. I could go and kill the connections manually from mysql prompt but i am not happy with that for obvious reasons. It seems not to be my newbieness because even examples that come with netbeans act the same way. If i wasnt using any persistence i could open and close connections from within the application when ever i needed. But if i understood it right hibernate does manage the connections itself. I couldnt find anything about how i could force hibernate to close connections at a certain point within application.

So what can i do about it?

thanks.