Overview of SessionFactory

The SessionFactory is a thread-safe, immutable representation of the mapping of an application's domain model to a Database. As a central component of the Hibernate ORM framework, it provides Session instances which are used to interact with the underlying data store. Detailed specifications can be found at the official Hibernate website.

Constructing a SessionFactory is a resource-intensive process because it involves parsing XML configuration files or scanning for Annotations in Java classes. In the context of the Java-Persistence-API, the SessionFactory behaves as an EntityManagerFactory. It manages the Connection-Pool and ensures that Transactions are handled efficiently across the application.

• Session
• Hibernate
• ORM
• JPA