Is the buildSessionFactory() Configuration method deprecated in Hibernate?

Question

When I updated the Hibernate version from 3.6.8 to 4.0.0, I got a warning about deprecated method buildSessionFactory() in this line:

private static final SessionFactory sessionFactory =
         new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();

the Javadoc recommends using another method

buildSessionFactory(ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry)

but in the documentation I found deprecated variant

Answer 1

Yes it is deprecated. Replace your SessionFactory with the following:

In Hibernate 4.0, 4.1, 4.2

private static SessionFactory sessionFactory;
private static ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry;

public static SessionFactory createSessionFactory() {
    Configuration configuration = new Configuration();
    configuration.configure();
    ServiceRegistry serviceRegistry = new ServiceRegistryBuilder().applySettings(
            configuration.getProperties()). buildServiceRegistry();
    sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory(serviceRegistry);
    return sessionFactory;
}

UPDATE:

In Hibernate 4.3 ServiceRegistryBuilder is deprecated. Use the following instead.

serviceRegistry = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder().applySettings(
            configuration.getProperties()).build();