The code to boot the Hibernate ORM SessionFactory is extremely flexible, allaowing for deep integration with various containers and frameworks and extensive customisations.

However we're lacking a simple, path to boot it; the goal of this issue is to track such need, discuss the simplicity/limitations balance we want to stricke, and hopefully propose such a new experimental API.

See also:

• https://lists.jboss.org/pipermail/hibernate-dev/2020-February/018660.html