Hibernate SessionFactory getCurrentSession() method returns the session bound to the context. But for this to work, we need to configure it in hibernate configuration file.
Since this session object belongs to the hibernate context, we don’t need to close it. Once the session factory is closed, this session object gets closed.
<property name="hibernate.current_session_context_class">thread</property>
Hibernate SessionFactory openSession() method always opens a new session. We should close this session object once we are done with all the database operations. We should open a new session for each request in a multi-threaded environment.
There is another method openStatelessSession() that returns a stateless session, for more details with examples please read Hibernate openSession vs getCurrentSession.
