Hibernate - Session Factory opensession & getcurrentsession

SessionFacoty.openSession():

• It always create a new session object.
• You need to explicitly flush and close session object.
• You no need to configure any property to call this method.

SessionFactory.getCurrentSession():

• It create new session if not exists, else use the same session which is in current hibernate context.
• You no need to flush and close. Internally Hibernate will take care.
• You need to configure property,

       "hibernate.current_session_context_class"

<session-factory>

    <property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class" >

    </property>

</session-factory>