How to create a service with multiple threads which all use the same Hibernate session?
My goal is to parse a large XML file and persist objects to DB based on the XML data, and to do it quickly. The operation needs to be transactional so I can rollback in case there is a problem parsing the XML or an object that gets created cannot be validated. I am using the Grails Executor plugin to thread the operation. The problem is that each thread I create within the service has its own transaction and session. If I create 4 threads and 1 fails the session for the 3 that didn't fail may have already flushed, or they may flush in the future. I was thinking if I could tell each thread to