Close SessionFactory in Hibernate 4.3

Question

I\'m upgrading my Hibernate to the latest version. With my old HibernateUtil.java I had no problems but when upgrading it, the SessionFactory doesn\'t seem to c

Answer 1

Release the serviceRegistry when the main application terminates.

public class Service {
private SessionFactory factory;
private ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry;

public void initialize() throws Exception{

    Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
    configuration.configure("com/jeecourse/config/hibernate.cfg.xml");

    serviceRegistry = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder().applySettings(
            configuration.getProperties()).build();

    factory = configuration.buildSessionFactory(serviceRegistry);

}

public void close() throws Exception{
    if(serviceRegistry!= null) {
        StandardServiceRegistryBuilder.destroy(serviceRegistry);
    }
}