[hibernate-dev] Allowing auto-close usage for Session

I was expecting this to be a trivial and non-API breaking change, but it turns out the close() method for Session doesn't return void, and so is not compatible with the Closeable inteface: /** * End the session by releasing the JDBC connection and cleaning up. It is * not strictly necessary to close the session but you must at least * {@link #disconnect()} it. * * @return the connection provided by the application or null. * @throws HibernateException Indicates problems cleaning up. */ public Connection close() throws HibernateException; So this change can't be applied in 4.3 yet, but I'd hope to finally send a PR for 5.0 at least; Assuming that some applications really need that Connection instance, my proposal would be to split the functionality across two methods: public Connection closeAndReturnConnection(); public void close(); Any better names / ideas? Second question: we had previously decided to implement java.io.Closeable, so that it would work also for users of Java6. But if for the above reason, this is getting into master only, then I guess we could reopen that subject: would you prefer to have it extend just java.lang.AutoCloseable ? Sanne