Creating EntityManagerFactory from hibernate Configuration

Question

In our current application (Java SE) we use Hibernate specific API, but we kind of want to migrate to JPA wherever possible (but slowly). For that, I need EntityManagerFactory instead of SessionFactory (and I would like to keep this an axiom without dispute).

Where is the problem is, that currently our session factory is being created from org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration and I would like to keep it as it for now - as this configuration is passed thru different parts of our software which can and do configure the persistence as they want.

So the question is: how can I make

ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry = new ServiceRegistryBuilder()
                                   .applySettings( hibConfiguration.getProperties() )
                                   .buildServiceRegistry();
SessionFactory sessionFactory = hibConfiguration.buildSessionFactory( serviceRegistry );

equivalent resulting in EntityManagerFactory?

moving to JPA completely - it was easier than any of intermediate solutions we came up with. — psychollek
– psychollek, Commented Oct 5, 2015 at 11:29
Aha, so I suppose you are not using a hibernate interceptor then, right? I have this question which does not seem to attract any answers: stackoverflow.com/questions/32696237/… — Mike Nakis
– Mike Nakis, Commented Oct 5, 2015 at 12:07

MicSim · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-08 15:14:41Z

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This is quite straightforward. You will need a persistence.xml though, where you have defined a persistence unit for JPA. Then you have to convert the Hibernate properties to a Map, so you can pass them to the createEntityManagerFactory method. This will give you the EntityManagerFactory using your Hibernate properties.

public EntityManagerFactory createEntityManagerFactory(Configuration hibConfiguration) {
    Properties p = hibConfiguration.getProperties();

    // convert to Map
    Map<String, String> pMap = new HashMap<>();
    Enumeration<?> e = p.propertyNames();
    while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
        String s = (String) e.nextElement();
        pMap.put(s, p.getProperty(s));
    }

    // create EntityManagerFactory
    EntityManagerFactory emf = Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("some persistence unit", pMap);

    return emf;
}

If you need the SessionFactory from the EntityManagerFactory (the other way around), then you can use this method:

public SessionFactory getSessionFactory(EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory) {
    return ((EntityManagerFactoryImpl) entityManagerFactory).getSessionFactory();
}

edited May 8, 2015 at 15:14

answered May 8, 2015 at 13:53

MicSim

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3 Comments

Neil Stockton Over a year ago

The last part should be using the unwrap() method rather than explicit casting.

psychollek Over a year ago

I thought it works, but unfortunatelly this doesn't supply the registered entities :/ I'm doomed for persistence.xml files with entities specified :/.

MicSim Over a year ago

That's what I meant by: "You will need a persistence.xml though, where you have defined a persistence unit for JPA.". You somehow have to tell JPA which entities to persist.

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