Re: [hibernate-dev] Why does Hibernate has aggressive connection releasing for JTA

It was to work around certain containers (not just EE containers) that implement "resource containment" checks. The Hibernate Session defers getting a JDBC Connection until it actually needs one, which can lead to cases like the following where 2 beans share a Session/EM: Bean1: get Session, but don't use it yet in way that needs Connection Bean1: call Bean2... Bean2: get Session, do some work forcing Session to obtain Connection Bean2: return (Session still hold Connection) At this point, these containers see this as a "leaked" Connection because the handle was not released by the end of the scope in which it was obtained. Hence, aggressive releasing. My contention at the time was that a ConnectionAcquisitionMode would have been better/cleaner. I still feel that way, and hope to still come back and add that; so much so in fact that the enum already exists[1] :). [1] org.hibernate.ConnectionAcquisitionMode On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 1:45 AM Vlad Mihalcea <mihalcea.vlad(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: