Hi all,

I was trying to use hibernate with the examples and I wonder what about avantage to use the class HibernateUtil?

Is this to have a to make the Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory() only once at the beginning of the application? And I have read the doc but I'm not sure to understand the use of the ThreadLocal attribute, is this to be able in a multi thread or distributed context to be able to retrieve an open session. But in this case a static attribute in a static class is sufficient?

Any help on this is very welcome.

Thanks.

Vlad

The ThreadLocalSession pattern is used to have exactly one session per thread and not having to pass it around through method calls. Read the Java API for ThreadLocal.

Yes, read more about the ThreadLocal Session pattern here, also check the IBM article:

http://www.hibernate.org/Documentation/ ... calSession
http://www.hibernate.org/Documentation/ ... ctionScope

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/j ... eads3.html

Is this a problem if I have two sessions at the same time?

And is this better to close a session as soon as work is done or can we let it open for futher use, this is probably time consuming?

Vlad

Please read the stuff christian posted, it is quite well outlined there what your options are.

Yes I sax it just after posting, thanks for so quick response.

Vlad