Spring Hibernate - Could not obtain transaction-synchronized Session for current thread

You must enable the transaction support (<tx:annotation-driven> or @EnableTransactionManagement) and declare the transactionManager and it should work through the SessionFactory.

You must add @Transactional into your @Repository

With @Transactional in your @Repository Spring is able to apply transactional support into your repository.

Your Student class has no the @javax.persistence.* annotations how @Entity, I am assuming the Mapping Configuration for that class has been defined through XML.

I have had the same issue, but in a class that was not a part of the service layer. In my case, the transaction manager was simply obtained from the context by the getBean() method, and the class belonged to the view layer - my project utilizes OpenSessionInView technique.

The sessionFactory.getCurrentSession() method, has been causing the same exception as the author's. The solution for me was rather simple.

Session session;

try {
    session = sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
} catch (HibernateException e) {
    session = sessionFactory.openSession();
}

If the getCurrentSession() method fails, the openSession() should do the trick.

Add the annotation @Transactional of spring in the class service