[hibernate-dev] Lambda usage to run a code block in an isolated transaction

Today porting some benchmark code to Hibernate ORM 5.2 I had several difficulties around the fact that the code now needs to be different depending on transactions being container managed or not. My goal was to have a single benchmark test which I could compile once and run in either JavaSE or CMT; with some help from Steve I figured the necessary incantations out but ... it looks very unpractical. One way is to use an isolation delegate, which looks like this: final SessionImplementor session = (SessionImplementor) s; session.getTransactionCoordinator().createIsolationDelegate().delegateWork( new WorkExecutorVisitable() { @ Override public Object accept(WorkExecutor executor, Connection connection) throws SQLException { /// Some work with PreparedStatement on Connection.. } }, true ); This worked fine for some raw SQL used for the benchmark initialization, but in another case I'd prefer to use the Session API rather than dealing with PreparedStatements and native connections; it looks like we don't have an equivalent "run code in isolation" for the Session ? It would be great if I could just pass a lambda to a Session and have this executed on a "child Session" in the scope of a "child Transaction", or just start and commit a transaction if there isn't one. s.executeInIsolation( session -> session.save(...) ); So I'd expect that details like how to begin the transaction, how it should be committed (or rolled back in case of exceptions), how to lookup a TransactionManager, and especially how to not leak resources should be handled for the user. Obviously the inner Session instance is a different one than the outer, so any data returned by this block should be considered detached; maybe this limitation would be clearer if the method was hosted on SessionFactory or StatelessSession instead? Although it wouldn't necessarily have the limitations of a StalessSession, and it would be nice to have the inner transaction behave as a nested one when there's already one in the host Session. Looking forward for comments and improvement ideas :) Thanks, Sanne