Red Hat Summit4.8.4. JMX deployment
The line
cfg.buildSessionFactory() still has to be executed somewhere to get a SessionFactory into JNDI. You can do this either in a static initializer block, like the one in HibernateUtil, or you can deploy Hibernate as a managed service.
Hibernate is distributed with
org.hibernate.jmx.HibernateService for deployment on an application server with JMX capabilities, such as JBoss AS. The actual deployment and configuration is vendor-specific. Here is an example jboss-service.xml for JBoss 4.0.x:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<server>
<mbean code="org.hibernate.jmx.HibernateService"
name="jboss.jca:service=HibernateFactory,name=HibernateFactory">
<!-- Required services -->
<depends>jboss.jca:service=RARDeployer</depends>
<depends>jboss.jca:service=LocalTxCM,name=HsqlDS</depends>
<!-- Bind the Hibernate service to JNDI -->
<attribute name="JndiName">java:/hibernate/SessionFactory</attribute>
<!-- Datasource settings -->
<attribute name="Datasource">java:HsqlDS</attribute>
<attribute name="Dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect</attribute>
<!-- Transaction integration -->
<attribute name="TransactionStrategy">
org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory</attribute>
<attribute name="TransactionManagerLookupStrategy">
org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup</attribute>
<attribute name="FlushBeforeCompletionEnabled">true</attribute>
<attribute name="AutoCloseSessionEnabled">true</attribute>
<!-- Fetching options -->
<attribute name="MaximumFetchDepth">5</attribute>
<!-- Second-level caching -->
<attribute name="SecondLevelCacheEnabled">true</attribute>
<attribute name="CacheProviderClass">org.hibernate.cache.EhCacheProvider</attribute>
<attribute name="QueryCacheEnabled">true</attribute>
<!-- Logging -->
<attribute name="ShowSqlEnabled">true</attribute>
<!-- Mapping files -->
<attribute name="MapResources">auction/Item.hbm.xml,auction/Category.hbm.xml</attribute>
</mbean>
</server>
This file is deployed in a directory called
META-INF and packaged in a JAR file with the extension .sar (service archive). You also need to package Hibernate, its required third-party libraries, your compiled persistent classes, as well as your mapping files in the same archive. Your enterprise beans (usually session beans) can be kept in their own JAR file, but you can include this EJB JAR file in the main service archive to get a single (hot-)deployable unit. Consult the JBoss AS documentation for more information about JMX service and EJB deployment.
