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3. At the end of step 1, the Hibernate Session is stored in the user's HttpSession. The Hibernate Session remains active for the entire "conversation" - this technique is described as "session-per-conversation". Step 2 would retrieve the Hibernate Session from the user's HttpSession and all domain objects associated with the Hibernate Session in step 1 would be available to step 2. In this approach, it would be essential for the end of step 1 to disconnect the JDBC connection; and for the beginning of step 2 to establish a new JDBC connection.

Further Reading

Some useful information is available here:

• Hibernate (3.3) Documentation
• "Hibernate in Action" PDF
• "Java Persistence with Hibernate" PDF