In my app, I wrote my own threadsafe Databinder class to serialize my Hibernate objects to XML. Like the Hibernate version, it depends on SessionFactoryImplementor to get the Hibernate metadata. I was able to make it work by adding a method to SessionFactory and SessionFactoryImpl, but I don't want to have dependencies on this tweaked code, so I'm hoping there's some way to obtain SessionFactoryImplementor programmatically rather than using modified Hibernate source. Anyone know how to do this?

(SessionFactoryImplementor) mySessionFactory ?