Hello,
I am trying to get a handle on using hibernate, from all i have read it looks like an awsome tool. We have 4 sites that are currently using standard SQL calls that i would like to move over to hibernate.
These sites currently run on the same jboss deployment and are setup for virtual name based hosting as per http://jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=10830 
I have followed all of the examples from 66.html as well as the linked docs. Hibernate gets installed as an SAR with no problem. 
My question is - 
since i have deployed hibernate as a SAR with this as the jboss-service.xml which was generated via the ant script
Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE server>
<!-- Generated file - Do not edit! -->
<server>
   <mbean code="net.sf.hibernate.jmx.HibernateService" name="jboss.jca:service=Hibernate">
       <depends>jboss.jca:service=RARDeployer</depends>
       <attribute name="MapResources">omni/user/UserBean.hbm.xml,omni/user/AddressBean.hbm.xml,omni/user/ProfileBean.hbm.xml</attribute>
       <attribute name="JndiName">HibernateFactory</attribute>
       <attribute name="Datasource">MySqlDS</attribute>
       <attribute name="Dialect">net.sf.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</attribute>
       <attribute name="UseOuterJoin">true</attribute>
       <attribute name="ShowSql">false</attribute>
       <attribute name="UserTransactionName">UserTransaction</attribute>
       <attribute name="TransactionStrategy">net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory</attribute>
       <attribute name="TransactionManagerLookupStrategy">net.sf.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup</attribute>
   </mbean>
</server>
Do I still need to provide access to hibernate using the HibernateUtil class or should i be able to access hibernate from jndi? This may should like a silly question, but I want to make sure I understand fully before we begin to move over to a new technology
Here is the HibernateUtil class i am using in our tests.Code:
public class HibernateUtil {
   static Category log = Category.getInstance(HibernateUtil.class.getName());
    
   private static SessionFactory sessionFactory;
   static {
      try {
         sessionFactory =
            new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
      }
      catch (HibernateException ex) {
         log.error("caught: " +ex);
      }
   }
   public static final ThreadLocal session = new ThreadLocal();
   public static Session currentSession() throws HibernateException {
      Session s = (Session) session.get();
      // Open a new Session, if this Thread has none yet
      if (s == null) {
         s = sessionFactory.openSession();
         session.set(s);
      }
      return s;
   }
   public static void closeSession() throws HibernateException {
      Session s = (Session) session.get();
      session.set(null);
      if (s != null)
         s.close();
   }
Any pointers or recommendations would be of great help
Happy New Year!
Jason