Hibernate : No CurrentSessionContext configured

Question

I'm stuck due to some silly mistake somewhere but not able to figure out !

Hibernate 4.2.6

I have referred to this question, asked several times previously, for example here

hibernate.cfg.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-configuration SYSTEM
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Configuration DTD 3.0//EN" 
    "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-configuration-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory>
        <property name="hibernate.bytecode.use_reflection_optimizer">false</property>

        <property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.password">root</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test</property>
        <property name="hibernate.connection.username">root</property>

        <property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect</property>

        <property name="show_sql">true</property>

        <property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">org.hibernate.context.ThreadLocalSessionContext</property>

        <mapping resource="Event.hbm.xml"></mapping>
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Event.hbm.xml

<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC 
    "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD 3.0//EN"
    "http://www.hibernate.org/dtd/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping>

    <class name="com.db.pojo.Event" table="Events">

        <id name="id" column="Id">
            <generator class="native"></generator>
        </id>
        <property name="title" column="Title"></property>

        <property name="date" column="Date" type="timestamp"></property>

    </class>

</hibernate-mapping>

HibernateUtil

package com.db.util;

import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import org.hibernate.service.ServiceRegistryBuilder;

public class HibernateUtil {

    private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory = buildSessionFactory();

    private static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

        Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
        configuration.configure("hibernate.cfg.xml");

        ServiceRegistryBuilder serviceRegistryBuilder = new ServiceRegistryBuilder()
                .applySettings(configuration.getProperties());
        return configuration.buildSessionFactory(serviceRegistryBuilder
                .buildServiceRegistry());
    }

    public static SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
        return sessionFactory;
    }

}

Whenever I try this :

Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();

I get :

Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.HibernateException: No CurrentSessionContext configured!
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.getCurrentSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:988)
    at test.EventManager.createAndStoreEvent(EventManager.java:27)
    at test.EventManager.main(EventManager.java:17)

Edited after executing on my personal laptop

1. The code runs fine if I use 'thread' in the cfg file
2. If I use 'ThreadLocalSessionContext', I get the below exception(Please note that even the output on the console is now enormous than the previous run) - is it that the class 'ThreadLocalSessionContext' was not present in the 3.0 version(I tried to find in the API but the site doesn't have the older API )

Now I'm suspicious about the dtd - are Hibernate 3.0 jars being referred somewhere while the local ones are ignored, even though SYSTEM is specified? I got the previous exception(no current context) while executing the code on a machine with restricted Internet access. But when I executed the same on my personal laptop :

eventDesciption : Team eventDate : 2013-12-12
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.java.JavaReflectionManager <clinit>
INFO: HCANN000001: Hibernate Commons Annotations {4.0.4.Final}
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.Version logVersion
INFO: HHH000412: Hibernate Core {4.2.6.Final}
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment buildBytecodeProvider
INFO: HHH000021: Bytecode provider name : javassist
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration configure
INFO: HHH000043: Configuring from resource: hibernate.cfg.xml
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration getConfigurationInputStream
INFO: HHH000040: Configuration resource: hibernate.cfg.xml
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration addResource
INFO: HHH000221: Reading mappings from resource: resources/Event.hbm.xml
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration doConfigure
INFO: HHH000041: Configured SessionFactory: null
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.service.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl configure
INFO: HHH000402: Using Hibernate built-in connection pool (not for production use!)
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.service.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl configure
INFO: HHH000115: Hibernate connection pool size: 20
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.service.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl configure
INFO: HHH000006: Autocommit mode: false
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.service.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl configure
INFO: HHH000401: using driver [com.mysql.jdbc.Driver] at URL [jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test]
Nov 28, 2013 8:55:59 PM org.hibernate.service.jdbc.connections.internal.DriverManagerConnectionProviderImpl configure
INFO: HHH000046: Connection properties: {user=root, password=****}
Nov 28, 2013 8:56:00 PM org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect <init>
INFO: HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
Nov 28, 2013 8:56:00 PM org.hibernate.engine.jdbc.internal.LobCreatorBuilder useContextualLobCreation
INFO: HHH000423: Disabling contextual LOB creation as JDBC driver reported JDBC version [3] less than 4
Nov 28, 2013 8:56:00 PM org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.TransactionFactoryInitiator initiateService
INFO: HHH000399: Using default transaction strategy (direct JDBC transactions)
Nov 28, 2013 8:56:00 PM org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.ASTQueryTranslatorFactory <init>
INFO: HHH000397: Using ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
Nov 28, 2013 8:56:00 PM org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl buildCurrentSessionContext
ERROR: HHH000302: Unable to construct current session context [org.hibernate.context.ThreadLocalSessionContext]
org.hibernate.service.classloading.spi.ClassLoadingException: Unable to load class [org.hibernate.context.ThreadLocalSessionContext]
    at org.hibernate.service.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl.classForName(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:152)
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.buildCurrentSessionContext(SessionFactoryImpl.java:1544)
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.<init>(SessionFactoryImpl.java:516)
    at org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration.buildSessionFactory(Configuration.java:1790)
    at com.db.util.HibernateUtil.buildSessionFactory(HibernateUtil.java:19)
    at com.db.util.HibernateUtil.<clinit>(HibernateUtil.java:9)
    at test.EventManager.createAndStoreEvent(EventManager.java:27)
    at test.EventManager.main(EventManager.java:17)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Could not load requested class : org.hibernate.context.ThreadLocalSessionContext
    at org.hibernate.service.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl$AggregatedClassLoader.findClass(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:319)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Unknown Source)
    at org.hibernate.service.classloading.internal.ClassLoaderServiceImpl.classForName(ClassLoaderServiceImpl.java:149)
    ... 7 more

Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.HibernateException: No CurrentSessionContext configured!
    at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.getCurrentSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:988)
    at test.EventManager.createAndStoreEvent(EventManager.java:27)
    at test.EventManager.main(EventManager.java:17)

Solution 1

As per the best of my knowledge, your configuration is not proper for current session. Instead of

<property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">org.hibernate.context.ThreadLocal‌​SessionContext</property>

use

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

For more information on this, please visit this link:

http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/3.3/reference/en/html/architecture.html#architecture-current-session

Specially, read the last lines of last paragraph.

For those who're using Hibernate 4.1,

<property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">org.hibernate.context.internal.ThreadLocalSessionContext</property>

Reference: https://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/orm/4.1/javadocs/org/hibernate/context/internal/ThreadLocalSessionContext.html

Solution 2

Try changing

Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession(); 

to :

Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession();

Solution 3

You need to change your property:

org.hibernate.context.internal.ThreadLocalSessionContext to Thread

Solution 4

I know this is an old post but just in case someone comes here as I did - this is working:

package com.spring.util;

import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;

public class HibernateUtil {

private static HibernateUtil instance = new HibernateUtil();

private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

private HibernateUtil(){
    this.sessionFactory = buildSessionFactory();
}

private synchronized static SessionFactory buildSessionFactory() {
    return new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();
}

public static HibernateUtil getInstance() {
    if(instance == null){
        return new HibernateUtil();
    }
    return instance;
}

public SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {
    return sessionFactory;
}

}

Now to invoke this is quite simple:

SessionFactory sessionFactory = HibernateUtil.getInstance().getSessionFactory();

And the next step would be something like bellow:

public void saveOrUpdate(MyObject myObj) {
    Session session = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
    session.beginTransaction();
    session.saveOrUpdate(myObj);
    session.getTransaction().commit();
}

Also make sure that hibernate.cfg.xml is in src/main/resources folder.

Solution 5

For hibernate 4.x you need to use org.hibernate.context.internal.ThreadLocalSessionContext instead of org.hibernate.context.ThreadLocalSessionContext .

However, you can just set the property to thread and not Thread .

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

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Comments

[Kaliyug Antagonist]

Before posting this question, I had referred to similar posts and had tried both ways in vain, issue is something else !

[RAS]

@KaliyugAntagonist what exception do you get when you write only thread instead of org.hibernate.context.ThreadLocal‌​SessionContext?

[Kaliyug Antagonist]

I have edited my post - I'm getting different behavior on different machines.

[Solostaran14]

It is stated in the Hibernate tutorial that "thread" is a value to consider for design and prototype but not for production. So I went to the hibernate library (v4.3) and found that the org.hibernate.context.ThreadLocal‌​SessionContext class does not exists. Instead there is a org.hibernate.context.internal.ThreadLocal‌​SessionContext class that worked for me.

[RAS]

@Solostaran14, thanks for pointing that out. Updated the answer.

[acsadam0404]

This solves the issue but raises another. If used that way the session must be manually closed to avoid too many open sessions.

[mikebertiean]

this still has problems. getting the error org.hibernate.HibernateException: No CurrentSessionContext configured!

[Marco]

Ok, don't know what's happening since I can't see the full stack trace but maybe this post will help you: stackoverflow.com/questions/7281045/…

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