Hi,
I am new to this version of Hibernate, though I used it a long time ago. I downloaded the tutoral, which contains the deprecated BuildSession method. I updated to the currently recommended way of creating a session
public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
if (sessionFactory == null) {
// loads configuration and mappings
Configuration configuration = new Configuration().configure();
ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry
= new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder()
.applySettings(configuration.getProperties()).build();

// builds a session factory from the service registry
sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory(serviceRegistry);
}

return sessionFactory;
}

and tried the test code in AnnotationsIllustrationTest.java.

As long as this property is set in the hibernate.cfg.xml file
<property name="hbm2ddl.auto">create</property>
the test code works. But if I remove it, or call the same code sequence from a regular main method, the code hangs AFTER the final close
This is the code
public static void main(String args[])
{
Session session = HibernateUtil.getSession();
session.beginTransaction();
session.save(new Event("Our very first event!", new Date()));
session.save(new Event("A follow up event", new Date()));
session.getTransaction().commit();
session.close();

// now lets pull events from the database and list them
session = HibernateUtil.getSession();
session.beginTransaction();
List result = session.createQuery("from Event").list();
for (Event event : (List<Event>) result) {
System.out.println("Event (" + event.getDate() + ") : " + event.getTitle());
}
session.getTransaction().commit();
session.close();
}

Everything runs to the end, but a thread keeps running so nothing every completes. If I forcibly close, using System.exit(0), then the program stops, but I hate to do that.

Something seems terribly wrong if even the basic tutorial code doesn't run correctly. And the tutorial is out of date with deprecated methods. I notice a lot of people asking about the deprecated methods in the tutorial on this forum, with no response. Have people just given up on Hibernate?