title: Can you have multiple transactions within one Hibernate Session?
body: <p>Can you have multiple transactions within one Hibernate Session?</p>
  
  <p>I'm unclear if this is an allowable desirable. In my code I have a long running thread and takes items from a Blocking Queue, depending on what is on the queue, it may need to create and save a hibernate object, or it may not need to do anything. </p>
  
  <p>Each item is distinct so if item 1 is saved and item 2 fails to save whatever reason I don't want to that to prevent item 1 being added to the database. </p>
  
  <p>So the simplest way to do this is for each item that needs to be created to create a new session, open transaction, save new object, commit transaction, close session</p>
  
  <p>However, that means a new session is created for each item, which seems to go against Hibernates own recommendations to not do Session Per Request Pattern. So my alternative was to create one session in the thread, then just open and commit a new transaction as required when needed to create a new object. But I've seen no examples of this approach and I'm unsure if it actually works. </p>