(I first posted this to the beginners group, but I realize it fits better here... sorry)

It seems that most people use Hibernate within an J2EE server. In my case, I wish to use Hibernate / Sybase in a multithreaded Java server which is called by means of 1) webservices from several clients and 2) internally by the server, by several threads (i.e. when particular business events occur, etc.) Note that the WebServices server is also multithreaded.

Is Hibernate suited in this kind of setup? Is it threadsafe? What is the best way to organize Hibernate within this architecture?

Thanks for any pointers / ideas!

yes


The SessionFactory is threadsafe; the Session is not. No more than a single thread (or its children) should access the Session. Normally, this is not an issue, as a Session is opened to handle each incoming request.