Hi everyone,

I would like to know the drawbacks of using hibernates built in session and transaction handling? Does it support multiple connections? I've read in a few places not for production use. I have been unable to find the specifics, is there a link you could point me towards?

I've looked into the other options; JTA and Spring unsure which approach to choose.

Thanks, Alyssa.

This is much to broad a topic to address in a forum response. I'd suggest reading Java Persistence with Hibernate, there is a ton of information that will help you make an educated decision. In general, you should configure a container managed DataSource (-ds.xml in JBoss, <Resource> / <ResourceParams> in Tomcat or DBCP in Spring) and use declarative Transaction management. EJB3 makes all this pretty painless, as does Spring (the latter requires more configuration).

HTH,

Chris