I am sure that among Spring/Hibernate developers, there are a lot confuses about the concepts of JPA transaction, Hibernate sessions and JDBC connections and even DB transactions, sometimes these kind of confuses can impact the application design and issues investigation, so let’s make some clarification about these concepts.
Hibernate ORM is a very complicated framework as one most popular JPA implementer in Java world, explore it thoroughly really takes much time, I want use this article to quickly summarize the basic data load process and major software components.
I am sure there are always other better ways of avoid and fix the leak use of InheritableThreadLocal especially when we talk about this in more specific use scenarios, the above talking and solutions are pretty some generic ones. Once we are clarified about the root cause of theInheritableThreadLocal leak issues, we can use what ever solution we like for better protect or improve our software system.
