How Hibernate sessions work?
Emma Martin
Updated on March 03, 2026
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Similarly, you may ask, can I reuse the session in hibernate?
Therefore, you can run multiple transactions on the same Hibernate Session, but there's a catch. Once an exception is thrown you can no longer reuse that Session.
Likewise, do we need to close Hibernate session? close. This method completely clear the session. It evicts all loaded objects and cancel all pending operations and clear caches for all objects. close() method is used when you are going to close your JDBC connection.
Hereof, what happens if Hibernate session is not closed?
When you don't close your Hibernate sessions and therefore do not release JDBC connections, you have what is typically called Connection leak. So, after a number of requests (depending on the size of your connection pool) the server will not be able to acquire a connection to respond your request.
Is Hibernate session thread safe?
No, Session is not a thread-safe object, many threads can't access it simultaneously. In other words, you cannot share it between threads. Difference between Hibernate createCriteria, createQuery, createSQLQuery.
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