I'm incorporating the code, suggested at http://www.hibernate.org/42.html - the one from Steve Ebersole. Doesn't the currentSession method have to be synchronized?

Thanks, Jeff

Have a look at the HibernateUtil class in chapter 1 of the documentation, which uses a static initializer. (Also replace the catch Exception with catch Throwable in this initializer).

Hi Jeff,

Nope, the currentSession() method does not need to be synchronized.

The point here being that multiple threads executing in this method at the same time will allocate a private Hibernate session (if not already allocated), and store it in "a private place" in the ThreadLocal session attribute.