I wanted database reverse-engineering for my hibernate thingermuhbob, and HibernateTools only seems to take a configuration– can't pass in a datasource. At least last I tried.

So I started using JNDI. Seems like there's a lot of cool stuff you can do with it.

I haven't done any load-testing, but it would be interesting to see some stats, neh?

I really need to come up with some type of load-testing strategy. :-P

Anyways– it's good to know passing in the datasource itself basically works!

Yep, that's basically what I'm doing. Even better, it works the same way on Railo. However, seeding the SessionFactory with the data source itself, rather than individual sessions with a connection, makes things a lot simpler to deal with, so that's actually how I'm doing it. I had to use a thin wrapper around the datasource to provide to Hibernate, mostly to cover up the fact that Railo doesn't return a javax.sql.Datasource implementation like CF, but that's pretty irrelevant, and I'd expect that to be fixed up in the next release of Railo.

var dataSource = "yourDSN";
var daFactory = CreateObject ("Java","coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory");
var daConnection = daFactory.getDataSourceService().getDatasource(dataSource).getConnection();

You can then use it for a hibernate session (with setConnection()).

I think JNDI is a better bet tho, as you can rock caching, and distribution, and whatnot.

Cool stuff man!