java - Why do I get org.hibernate.HibernateException: No CurrentSessionContext configured

Question

I'm writing a simple project, a business app written in Swing, using Hibernate for back-end. I come from Spring, that gave me easy ways to use hibernate and transactions. Anyway I managed to have Hibernate working. Yesterday, while writing some code to delete a bean from DB, I got this:

org.hibernate.HibernateException: Illegal attempt to associate a collection with two open sessions

The deletion code is simply:

    Session sess = HibernateUtil.getSession();
    Transaction tx = sess.beginTransaction();
    try {
        tx.begin();
        sess.delete(ims);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        tx.rollback();
        throw e;
    }
    tx.commit();
    sess.flush();

and my HibernateUtil.getSession() is:

    public static Session getSession() throws HibernateException {
        Session sess = null;
        try {
            sess = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        } catch (org.hibernate.HibernateException he) {
            sess = sessionFactory.openSession();
        }
        return sess;
    }

additional details: I never close a hibernate session in my code, just on application closing. Is this wrong? Why do I get this on delete (only for that bean, others do work), and I don't on other operations (Insert, query, update)?

I read around and I tried to modify my getSession method simply in a sessionFactory.getCurrentSessionCall(), but I got: org.hibernate.HibernateException: No CurrentSessionContext configured!

Hibernat conf:

<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory >
    <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/joptel</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.password">******</property>
    <property name="hibernate.connection.pool_size">1</property>
    <property name="show_sql">true</property>
    <property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>


    ..mappings..

    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Answer 1

I wanted to ask you one thing, why are you trying to use "OpenSession" method?

public static Session getSession() throws HibernateException {         
   Session sess = null;       
   try {         
       sess = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();  
   } catch (org.hibernate.HibernateException he) {  
       sess = sessionFactory.openSession();     
   }             
   return sess;
} 

You don't have to call openSession(), because getCurrentSession() method is always returns current session (Thread in case if you have configured it to be).

I got it!... You have to specify current context in your hibernate.cfg.xml file

it should be:

<property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</property>