Hy, Iam a newbie with Hibernate. What is the method getCurrentSession() from SessionFactory class for?

Thanks

You can use this method to access an object that implements Hibernate's Session interface, which is the primary interface through which applications can use Hibernate.

A session is a single-threaded context provided by Hibernate; your application will likely use it to issue queries; begin, commit, and roll back transactions; save and update objects; and the like.

getCurrentSession() retrieves whatever session is available to the current thread. If you are using the Spring integration with Hibernate, or if you have specified "current_session_context_class" as "thread" in your Hibernate configuration, you will probably use this method in your DAOs to access the Hibernate session.