[Springframework-developer] HibernateTemplate enhancement

[Colin S. <col...@ex...>]

I think it would be useful to enhance HibernateTemplate to work in a 
mode such that it doesn't create the session if it isn't already bound 
on the thread. That is, there would be a new constructor which mirrors 
the SessionFactoryUtils.getSession(factory, boolean) method signature.

With the new convenience methods and the wrapping of Hibernate 
exceptions, I think HibernateTemplate is useful in some cases even when 
HibernateInterceptor is used to actually bind the session to the thread. 
However, in the latter case, I am somewhat worrried about using 
HibernateTemplate as it now exists since there is the danger of missing 
the interceptor in one place and accidentally auto creating the session.