When I start my application I call Configuration.buildSessionFactory(). If an error occurs while hibernate try to connect database, to get metadata or anything, I would like to handle this error, however hibernate isn't throwing an exception ... even if use openSession() I have an error !!!

How can I test if connection was established ?

I get an exception during Configuration.buildSessionFactory() if my database connection fails.

I'm using DBCP for the connection datasource - perhaps behavior varies depending on how you've configured Hibernate to obtain its connections?

james

I'm not using DBCP !!! In my case it isn't necessary ...
Heres my config file:

hibernate.dialect net.sf.hibernate.dialect.PostgreSQLDialect
hibernate.connection.driver_class org.postgresql.Driver
hibernate.connection.url jdbc:postgresql://192.168.0.254/somedb
hibernate.connection.username someuser
hibernate.connection.password somepass

hibernate.connection.pool_size 0
hibernate.statement_cache.size 0
hibernate.show_sql true

I'm using the default configuration.