When should we close the EntityManagerFactory? - java

I am pretty new on the ORM's. I just start to read books and documents about Java Persistence API with Hibernate.
I just wondered, closing EntityManagerFactory is similar with jdbc database connection closing?
Should we close it after every persist/update/delete or not? If we don't close it, will the database connection stay opened?

I just wondered, closing EntityManagerFactory is similar with jdbc database connection closing?
This is not exactly true but closing an EntityManagerFactory would be closer to destroying a whole connection pool. If you want to think JDBC connection, you should think EntityManager.
Should we close it after every persist/update/delete or not?
Creating an EntityManagerFactory is a pretty expensive operation and should be done once for the lifetime of the application (you close it at the end of the application). So, no, you should not close it for each persist/update/delete operation.
The EntityManagerFactory is created once for all and you usually get an EntityManager per request, which is closed at the end of the request (EntityManager per request is the most common pattern for a multi-user client/server application).
If we don't close it, will the database connection stay opened?
As hinted, it's the EntityManager that is actually associated to a database connection and closing the EntityManager will actually release the JDBC connection (most often, return it to a pool).

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Glassfish : "Non Transactional Settings" option in JDBC Pools

In Glassfish, there is a JDBC Pool option called
Non Transactional Connections
So am I correct in thinking that "Non Transactional Connections" is the same as setting auto-commit=false ?
If that is correct, then why, when this option is disabled (i.e. non-transactional enabled) do I get an error saying
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: Cannot commit when autoCommit is enabled.
This is when I have java code that looks like :
try {
preparedStatement = connection.prepareStatement(.....);
preparedStatement.executeQuery();
connection.commit();
}
Non Transactional Connections does not set the autoCommit property to false by default. That's not what non - transactional connections are for. From the Oracle glassfish documentation below,
The main advantage of using non-transactional connections is that the overhead incurred in enlisting and delisting connections in transaction contexts is avoided. However, use such connections carefully. For example, if a non-transactional connection is used to query the database while a transaction is in progress that modifies the database, the query retrieves the unmodified data in the database. This is because the in-progress transaction hasn’t committed. For another example, if a non-transactional connection modifies the database and a transaction that is running simultaneously rolls back, the changes made by the non-transactional connection are not rolled back.
You should
Connection con = ds.getConnection();
boolean initValue = con.getAutoCommit();
con.setAutoCommit(false);
//do your work here and commit or rollback
con.setAutoCommit(initValue );

JDBC connection pool management

I'm using org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource as my datasource implementation, my code geting connection and closing the connection like this:
Connection conn = dataSource.getConnection();
when I finished the connection work I will close it
conn.close();
My question is: the conn.close() is really close, so when the connection be closed like conn.close(), how is datasource doing. I heard that the datasource connection close is not really close, just is release, but I can't find the release API from datasource class. I want to know how does datasource manage the creation, close and release of database connection.
By the way a little question: how does datasource refresh the connection, I mean if the connections of the datasource haven't been used for one year, how does datasource keep the connections available?
DataSource (javax.sql.DataSource) represents an abstract concept of something you can get database connections from.
So, DataSource itself doesn't define any details of how connections are managed, and different implementations of DataSource may manage connections in different ways:
A naive implementation (such as Spring's DriverManagerDataSource) may create a new connection each time you request it, and in this case close() actually closes connections.
An implementation backed by a connection pool (such as Apache DBCP or c3p0) returns existing connections from the pool. Connection object returned by such an implementation is a proxy, and its close() method is overriden to return connection to the pool instead of closing it.
If you want to know how exactly your connection pool manages connections, check documentation of your connection pool implementation.
The close() call on a connection from a datasource doesn't necessarily close the database connection. It would merely return the connection to the pool for reuse. The way this is done is, the actual connection to the database is decorated with a PooledConnection sort of class and the close() method on this PooledConnection is overridden to just mark the connection as available.

Close Opened Hibernation sessions if exist

When a Hibernate session is opened (sessionFactory.openSession()) it might be closed. It is ok. In case it is missed to close an opened session which is used to retrieve data (not to save or update or delete) any where in the application, how to close opened sessions if exists?
(Let's say when a JFrame is closed, if there are opened sessions available, they must be closed. Closing sessions can be done by going through the codes one by one, but I mean here, without checking codes, is there any way to close sessions which are missed to close with some piece of code).
Why dont you close the session when your database operation finished?
I mean, In DAO classes you get opened session perform database operation. And in finally block, Close your session.
You can close session like :
finally {
if(session!=null){
session.close();
}
}
OR
You can get the current session using
Session sess = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
And close session on closing event of JFrame.
I get following lines from this link
The main contract here is the creation of Session instances. Usually
an application has a single SessionFactory instance and threads
servicing client requests obtain Session instances from this factory.
The internal state of a SessionFactory is immutable. Once it is
created this internal state is set. This internal state includes all
of the metadata about Object/Relational Mapping.
Implementors must be threadsafe.
And it is our duty to close session when finished the operation or transaction. When we close sessionfactory all resources(connection pools etc) are released properly.

Hibernate Session Connection Relationship

How many connection will hold for a single hibernate session where there is only one DB?
there is one connection per session.
the connection is opened only if the session needs to send JDBC queries
you should avoid using the underlying connection. The connection() method has been deprecated. If you need to perform raw jdbc operations, use the doWork(..) method (if your hibernate version is the latest)
At a given time given session will only hold one connection
which you can access with the connect() method.
The connection used can be changed though using the reconnect() method.

Am I using Java PooledConnections correctly?

I want to use pooled connections with Java (because it is costly to create one connection per thread) so I'm using the MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource() object. I'm persisting my data source across threads. So, I'm only using one datasource throughout the application like this:
startRegistry(); // creates an RMI registry for MySQL
MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource dataSource = new MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource();
dataSource.setUser("username");
dataSource.setPassword("password");
dataSource.setServerName("serverIP");
dataSource.setPort(3306);
dataSource.setDatabaseName("dbname");
InitialContext context = createContext(); // Creates a context
context.rebind("MySQLDS", dataSource);
Now that I have my datasource created, I'm doing the following in each separate thread:
PooledConnection connect = dataSource.getPooledConnection();
Connection sqlConnection = connect.getConnection();
Statement state = sqlConnection.createStatement();
ResultSet result = state.executeQuery("select * from someTable");
// Continue processing results
I guess what I'm confused on is the call to dataSource.getPooledConnection();
Is this really fetching a pooled connection? And is this thread safe?
I noticed that PooledConnection has methods like notify() and wait()... meaning that I don't think it is doing what I think it is doing...
Also, when and how should I release the connection?
I'm wondering if it would be more beneficial to roll my own because then I'd be more familiar with everything, but I don't really want to reinvent the wheel in this case :).
Thanks SO
This is not the right way. The datasource needs to be managed by whatever container you're running the application in. The MysqlConnectionPoolDataSource is not a connection pool. It is just a concrete implementation of the javax.sql.DataSource interface. You normally define it in the JNDI context and obtain it from there. Also MySQL itself states it all explicitly in their documentation.
Now, how to use it depends on the purpose of the application. If it is a web application, then you need to refer the JNDI resources documentation of the servletcontainer/appserver in question. If it is for example Tomcat, then you can find it here. If you're running a client application --for which I would highly question the value of a connection pool--, then you need to look for a connection pooling framework which can make use of the MySQL-provided connection pooled datasource, such as C3P0.
The other problem with the code which you posted is that the PooledConnection#getConnection() will return the underlying connection which is thus not a pooled connection. Calling close on it won't return the connection to the pool, but just really close it. The pool has to create a new connection everytime.
Then the threadsafety story, that depends on the real connection pooling framework in question. C3P0 has proven its robustness in years, you don't worry about it as long as you write JDBC code according the standard idiom, i.e. use only the JDBC interfaces and acquire and close all resources (Connection, Statement and ResultSet) in shortest possible scope.

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