java - Create session factory in Hibernate 4

Question

I'm having trouble generating a session factory in Hibernate 4. In Hibernate 3 I simple did:

org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration conf= HibernateUtil
    .getLimsInitializedConfiguration(systemConfiguration
.getHibernateconfFile());

SessionFactory sf = conf.configure().buildSessionFactory();

Now I need to pass a ServiceRegistry class to buildSessionFactory, but the Javadocs are extremely vague on how to go about this. Any tips?

Answer 1

Yes, they have deprecated the previous buildSessionFactory API, and it's quite easy to do well.. you can do something like this..

EDIT : ServiceRegistryBuilder is deprecated. you must use StandardServiceRegistryBuilder

public void testConnection() throws Exception {

            logger.info("Trying to create a test connection with the database.");
            Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
            configuration.configure("hibernate_sp.cfg.xml");
            StandardServiceRegistryBuilder ssrb = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder().applySettings(configuration.getProperties());
            SessionFactory sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory(ssrb.build());
            Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
            logger.info("Test connection with the database created successfuly.");
    }

For more reference and in depth detail, you can check the hibernate's official test case at https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/master/hibernate-testing/src/main/java/org/hibernate/testing/junit4/BaseCoreFunctionalTestCase.java function (buildSessionFactory()).