public static Session currentSession() throws HibernateException {
        Session session = (Session) threadLocal.get();

        if (session == null) {
            if (sessionFactory == null) {
                try {
                   System.out.println("1:");
                   cfg.configure(CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION);
                   System.out.println("2:");
                    sessionFactory = cfg.buildSessionFactory();
                    System.out.println("3:");
                }
                catch (Exception e) {
                    System.err.println("%%%% Error Creating SessionFactory %%%%");
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
            session = sessionFactory.openSession();
            threadLocal.set(session);
        }

        return session;
    }

public class HibernateSessionFactory {

    /**
     * Location of hibernate.cfg.xml file.
     * NOTICE: Location should be on the classpath as Hibernate uses
     * #resourceAsStream style lookup for its configuration file. That
     * is place the config file in a Java package - the default location
     * is the default Java package.<br><br>
     * Examples: <br>
     * <code>CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION = "/hibernate.conf.xml".
     * CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION = "/com/foo/bar/myhiberstuff.conf.xml".</code>
     */
[u]    [b]private static String CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION = "/hibernate.cfg.xml";[/b][/u]
    /** Holds a single instance of Session */
    private static final ThreadLocal threadLocal = new ThreadLocal();

    /** The single instance of hibernate configuration */
    private static final Configuration cfg = new Configuration();

    /** The single instance of hibernate SessionFactory */
    private static net.sf.hibernate.SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    /**
     * Returns the ThreadLocal Session instance.  Lazy initialize
     * the <code>SessionFactory</code> if needed.
     *
     *  @return Session
     *  @throws HibernateException
     */
    public static Session currentSession() throws HibernateException {
        Session session = (Session) threadLocal.get();

        if (session == null) {
            if (sessionFactory == null) {
                try {

                       System.out.println("1:");
[u]  [b]                  cfg.configure(CONFIG_FILE_LOCATION);[/b]     [/u]               
                     System.out.println("2:");
                      sessionFactory = cfg.buildSessionFactory();
                }
                catch (Exception e) {
                    System.err.println("%%%% Error Creating SessionFactory %%%%");
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
            }
            session = sessionFactory.openSession();
            threadLocal.set(session);
        }

        return session;
    }

    /**
     *  Close the single hibernate session instance.
     *
     *  @throws HibernateException
     */
    public static void closeSession() throws HibernateException {
        Session session = (Session) threadLocal.get();
        threadLocal.set(null);

       try
      {
          
        if (session != null) {
            session.close();
        }
      }              catch (Exception e) {
        System.err.println("%%%% Error Creating SessionFactory %%%%");
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    }

    /**
     * Default constructor.
     */
    private HibernateSessionFactory() {
    }

}