In Hibernate, the transaction management is quite standard, just remember any exceptions thrown by Hibernate are FATAL, you have to roll back the transaction and close the current session immediately.

Here’s a Hibernate transaction template :

        Session session = null;
    	Transaction tx = null;
 
    	try{
    		session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().openSession();
    		tx = session.beginTransaction();
    		tx.setTimeout(5);
 
    		//doSomething(session);
 
    		tx.commit();
 
 
    	}catch(RuntimeException e){
    		try{
    			tx.rollback();
    		}catch(RuntimeException rbe){
    			log.error("Couldn’t roll back transaction", rbe);
    		}
    		throw e;
    	}finally{
    		if(session!=null){
    			session.close();
    		}
    	}