I\'ve read various articles on the web, but they seem rather scattered on this point. Exactly what do I need to do in my configuration and in my method to get the hibernate ses
From a static method you can pull the sessionFactory bean from the application context:
import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.ApplicationHolder as AH ... def ctx = AH.application.mainContext def sessionFactory = ctx.sessionFactory def session = sessionFactory.currentSession