Session.connection() is deprecated (I'm using Hibernate 3.2.6.ga). Corresponding comment in sources says:
"@deprecated To be replaced with a SPI for performing work against the connection; scheduled for removal in 4.x"
I'm not a big expert in Hibernate and its internals. Can anyone give a hint: what should I use if I need to get a Connection from the Session instance?

Thanks in advance.

There is the Session.doWork() method. This is useful if you, for example, want to execute some SQL with JDBC and then return. It is not useful if you need to keep on to the connection for later use. The docs say something about this to be done in the future. In the meantime you'll have to hang on to Session.connection().

Thanks for the hint. Looks like Hibernate developers have deprecated connection() method a bit too early as this doWork() method is not in current production version yet...

Oh, my mistake... I remembered seeing something about this and assumed it was in the latest 3.2 version. I checked again and it seems like it was added in 3.3.0.cr1: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownote ... p_id=40712

We'll, I guess we both have to live with the compilation warnings for some time.

Indeed. It's in there!