The Hibernate SessionFactory is a factory for creating Hibernate sessions. It is typically created during application startup by reading the configuration files, which include mappings between entity classes and database tables.
The SessionFactory is responsible for managing the first-level cache, connection pooling, and other Hibernate-related configurations.
To create a SessionFactory, you need to provide the following information:
The location of the Hibernate configuration file.
The database driver class.
The database connection URL.
The database user name and password.
Once you have created a SessionFactory, you can use it to create Hibernate sessions.