Session Management: The Hibernate Session's life cycle can be automatically bound to the scope of a JTA transaction. This means you no longer have to manually open and close the Session, this becomes the job of a JBoss EJB interceptor. You also don't have to worry about transaction demarcation in your code anymore (unless you'd like to write a portable persistence layer of course, use the optional Hibernate Transaction API for this). You call the HibernateContext to access a Session.

HAR deployment: Usually you deploy the Hibernate JMX service using a JBoss service deployment descriptor (in an EAR and/or SAR file), it supports all the usual configuration options of a Hibernate SessionFactory. However, you still have to name all your mapping files in the deployment descriptor. If you decide to use the optional HAR deployment, JBoss will automatically detect all mapping files in your HAR file.