Beginning Hibernate 6: Java Persistence from Beginner to Pro

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8. Using the Session

Joseph B. Ottinger¹  , Jeff Linwood² and Dave Minter³

(1)

Youngsville, NC, USA

(2)

Austin, TX, USA

(3)

London, UK

 

You may have noticed that the Session is the central point of access to Hibernate functionality. We will now look at what it embodies and what that implies about how you should use it.

Sessions

From the examples in the earlier chapters, you will have noticed that a small number of classes dominate our interactions with Hibernate. Of these, Session, actually an interface, is the linchpin.

The Session object is used to create new database entities, ...