Hibernate connections are not closed even with C3P0 + explicit session.close()

Question

Hibernate connections to MySQL my db are not closing. After clicking 10 times in like 10 second, I get this connection statistics from MySQL Workbench (in my development machine. I'm the only user).MySQL Workbench Server Status

I have those in place

• C3P0 and running (checked from log4j, no problem related to C3P0 and seems running)
• A ServletReqestListener which checks if there's an open session and closes it in requestDestroyed() method.
• Hibernate Session object is being kept in ThreadLocal, so every request only have one connection, which opens at first query, and closes in ServletRequestListener.
• Every time I open a session and close a session I output "Session Opened" and "Session Closed" to System.out as in the code example blow. At every request, every page refresh, I get "Session Opened" and after "Session Closed", repectively. So my little logic works. But the connection does not get closed.

My hibernate.cfg.xml

<property name="hibernate.bytecode.use_reflection_optimizer">false</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.driver_class">com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">officenic</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.url">jdbc:mysql://localhost/officenic</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.username">officenic</property>
<property name="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5InnoDBDialect</property>

<!-- configuration pool via c3p0 -->
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.acquire_increment">1</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.idle_test_period">100</property> <!-- seconds -->
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_size">5</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.max_statements">0</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.min_size">1</property>
<property name="hibernate.c3p0.timeout">100</property> <!-- seconds -->

The code-block I call in everytime where I want to close the session.

if (session == null)
    return;

if (session.isOpen()) {

      if (session.isDirty())
         session.flush();

    session.close();
    System.out.println("Session closed");
}

Do I miss something?

Answer 1

Well it seems I was creating SessionFactory everytime. There's a nice class here at the link, making SessionFactory static solved the problem. http://docs.jboss.org/hibernate/core/3.3/reference/en/html/tutorial.html#tutorial-firstapp-helpers