Coding idiom for Hibernate?

Randy Kahle · **Joined:** Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:10 pm **Posts:** 7

I need to establish a coding idiom for use with Hibernate. The following method has an extra level of try-catch in a finally block.

Is this required or can I simply put the session.close() in the first block? Will Hibernate automatically close a session if there is an exception thrown?

Code:

private List findDomainObjects( String query )
  {
  List result = java.util.Collections.EMPTY_LIST;

  try
    {
    Session session = sessionFactory.openSession( conn );
    result = session.find( query );
    }
  catch ( HibernateException he )
    {
    cat.warn( "Hibernate error during query", he );
    }
  catch ( Exception e )
    {
    cat.fatal( "Serious internal error.", e );
    }
  finally
    {
    try
      {
      session.close();
      }
    catch ( Throwable t )
      {
      cat.fatal( "Serious internal error", t );
      }
    }
  return result;
  }

emmanuel · **Posted:** Thu Apr 22, 2004 3:47 am

Hibernate won't close the session unless you ask for it