Re: [hibernate-dev] Connection release mode and Session.connection() deprecation

If we have a bean (topbean) invoking another bean (childbean) method that needs a new JTA transaction (http://docs.oracle.com/javaee/6/api/javax/ejb/TransactionAttributeType.ht...), we will want to use separate database connections for the two beans. I think that this would only be a requirement if a (container managed) extended persistence context is used since two separate Hibernate sessions would be used if the persistence context is transaction scoped. If we are in a JTA transaction, I think that associating the connection with the transaction could be an alternative to associating the connection with the session. On 10/15/2012 12:30 PM, Steve Ebersole wrote: > Was thinking some more today about the deprecation of Session.connection() > > The reason we deprecated it was that we need a way to scope access to > the Connection because Session may have to release it due to "release > mode". The back story here is that we added "connection release mode" > as a way to fix an earlier problem using Hibernate in certain > container-managed-transaction scenarios involving nested bean calls > where they both used the same Session but the nested bean forced the > session to obtain a Connection first. Hibernate tries to delay > obtaining the JDBC Connection until needed. However, in the stated > scenario that leads to a situation where the container managing the > transaction sees a Connection "leaking" from the nested bean call since > it was the one that forced the Connection to be obtained from the > DataSource. The solution to this back then was to have Hibernate > release the Connection whenever it was done using it for the moment in > JTA cases. In retrospect, I think a much cleaner solution to the above > situation is to force the Session to obtain the Connection up front > rather than this obtain/release as-needed cycle. > > So as one more attempt to save Session.connection() from going away, I > wanted to propose that we drop the notion of "release mode" in favor of > simply saying whether or not to aggressively acquire the Connection when > the Session starts. Then all of the concerns that made deprecating and > planning on removing Session.connection() are no longer there. > > WDYT? > > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev(a)lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev