Hibernate اسئلة واجوبة المقابلات

Question: What is a SessionFactory? Is it a thread-safe object?

Answer: SessionFactory is Hibernates concept of a single datastore and is threadsafe so that many threads can access it concurrently and request for sessions and immutable cache of compiled mappings for a single database. A SessionFactory is usually only built once at startup. SessionFactory should be wrapped in some kind of singleton so that it can be easily accessed in an application code.