Seam-managed Hibernate sessions are similar. In components.xml:

<core:hibernate-session-factory name="hibernateSessionFactory"/>

<core:managed-hibernate-session name="bookingDatabase" 
                         auto-create="true"
           session-factory-jndi-name="java:/bookingSessionFactory"/>

Where java:/bookingSessionFactory is the name of the session factory specified in hibernate.cfg.xml.

<session-factory name="java:/bookingSessionFactory">
    <property name="transaction.flush_before_completion">true</property>
    <property name="connection.release_mode">after_statement</property>
    <property name="transaction.manager_lookup_class">
        org.hibernate.transaction.JBossTransactionManagerLookup
    </property>
    <property name="transaction.factory_class">
        org.hibernate.transaction.JTATransactionFactory
    </property>
    <property name="connection.datasource">java:/bookingDatasource</property>
    ...
</session-factory>

Note that Seam does not flush the session, so you should always enable hibernate.transaction.flush_before_completion to ensure that the session is automatically flushed before the JTA transaction commits.

We can now have a managed Hibernate Session injected into our JavaBean components using the following code:

@In Session bookingDatabase;