Why does each thread in my application use a different hibernation session?

Question

I have a web application that uses hibernate, and for some reason, each thread (httprequest or other threads associated with the queue) uses a different session. I implemented a class HibernateSessionFactorythat looks like this:

public class HibernateSessionFactory {
private static final ThreadLocal<Session> threadLocal = new ThreadLocal<Session>();
private  static Configuration configuration = new AnnotationConfiguration();    
private static org.hibernate.SessionFactory sessionFactory;
static {
    try {
        configuration.configure(configFile);
        sessionFactory = configuration.buildSessionFactory();
    } catch (Exception e) {}
}
private HibernateSessionFactory() {}
public static Session getSession() throws HibernateException {
    Session session = (Session) threadLocal.get();
    if (session == null || !session.isOpen()) {
if (sessionFactory == null) {
    rebuildSessionFactory();//This method basically does what the static init block does
}
session = (sessionFactory != null) ? sessionFactory.openSession(): null;
threadLocal.set(session);
}
   return session;
}
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, , hibernate.cfg.xml:

<hibernate-configuration>
<session-factory>
<property name="connection.url">someURL</property>
<property name="connection.driver_class"> com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver</property>
<property name="dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.SQLServerDialect</property>

<property name="hibernate.connection.isolation">1</property> 

<property name="hibernate.connection.username">User</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.password">Password</property>
<property name="hibernate.connection.pool_size">10</property>

<property name="show_sql">false</property>
<property name="current_session_context_class">thread</property>
<property name="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</property>

<property name="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">false</property>
<property name="hibernate.cache.provider_class">org.hibernate.cache.NoCacheProvider</property>
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Answer 1

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