What is sessionFactory in Hibernate

        What is sessionFactory ?

        SessionFactory:- 

Factory to create hibernate session objects  Maintains the datea that is collected from configuration object(Both cfg file and mapping file data).

Represents JDBC Con  pool that is created based on cfg file data .

SessionFactory object is immutable that means the data of this object cannot be modified onc created.

It is the object of  java class that implementes org.hibernate.SessionFactory.

SessionFactory factory=cfg.buildSessonFactory();

Builds session factory object having inmemory metadata  of both xml files that is gathered throuth “cfg” object.that is created based on hibernate cfg properties of inmemory metadata.