What is SessionFactory in Hibernate?

SessionFactory is an interface. SessionFactory can be created by providing Configuration object, which will contain all DB related property details pulled from either hibernate.cfg.xml file or hibernate.properties file. SessionFactory is a factory for Session objects.

We can create one SessionFactory implementation per database in any application. If your application is referring to multiple databases, then you need to create one SessionFactory per database.

The SessionFactory is a heavyweight object; it is usually created during application start up and kept for later use. The SessionFactory is a thread safe object and used by all the threads of an application.

Here is the sample implementation for SessionFactory:

HibernateUtil

package com.java2novice.hibernate;

import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistryBuilder;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import org.hibernate.service.ServiceRegistry;

import com.java2novice.model.Employee;

public class HibernateUtil {

	private static SessionFactory sessionFactory = null;

	static {
		try{
			loadSessionFactory();
		}catch(Exception e){
			System.err.println("Exception while initializing hibernate util.. ");
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
	}

	public static void loadSessionFactory(){

		Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
		configuration.configure("/j2n-hibernate.cfg.xml");
		configuration.addAnnotatedClass(Employee.class);
		ServiceRegistry srvcReg = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder().applySettings(configuration.getProperties()).build();
		sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory(srvcReg);
	}

	public static Session getSession() throws HibernateException {

		Session retSession=null;
	    	try {
	    		retSession = sessionFactory.openSession();
	    	}catch(Throwable t){
			System.err.println("Exception while getting session.. ");
			t.printStackTrace();
	    	}
	    	if(retSession == null) {
	    		System.err.println("session is discovered null");
	    	}

	    	return retSession;
    }
}

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