This is a short article to learn how to use Hibernate connection properties (username, JDBC URL etc.) in your persistence.xml to drive your connection to the Database
Hibernate and EJB 3
How to access Hibernate Session in JPA applications?
In order to access Hibernate objects from a JPA application you can use the unwrap method available in the EntityManager and EntityManager Factory class: EntityManager.<T>unwrap(Class<T>) EntityManagerFactory.<T>unwrap(Class<T>) This method can be used to gain access of JPA-vendor-specific classes. For example, here is how you can retrieve Hibernate’s Session and SessionFactory: Session session = em.unwrap(Session.class); SessionFactory sessionFactory … Read more