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Answer» Both the METHODS are provided by the Session Factory. The main differences are given below: | getCurrentSession() | openSession() |
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| This method returns the session bound to the context. | This method always opens a new session. | | This session object scope belongs to the hibernate context and to make this work hibernate configuration file has to be modified by adding <property name = "hibernate.current_session_context_class"> thread </property>. If not added, then using the method WOULD throw an HibernateException. | A new session object has to be created for each request in a multi-threaded environment. Hence, you NEED not configure any property to call this method. | | This session object gets closed once the session factory is closed. | It's the developer’s responsibility to close this object once all the database OPERATIONS are done. | | In a SINGLE-threaded environment, this method is faster than openSession(). | In single threaded environment, it is slower than getCurrentSession()single-threadeda |
Apart from these two methods, there is another method openStatelessSession() and this method returns a stateless session object.
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