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+package com.example.cosmos_serversb.models;
+
+import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
+import org.hibernate.boot.MetadataSources;
+import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistry;
+import org.hibernate.boot.registry.StandardServiceRegistryBuilder;
+
+import javax.inject.Singleton;
+
+
+@Singleton
+public class SessionFactoryManager {
+    private static SessionFactoryManager theInstance = null;
+    private static SessionFactory sessionFactory;
+
+    private SessionFactoryManager(){
+        setUp();
+    }
+
+    public static SessionFactoryManager getInstance(){
+        if(theInstance == null){
+            theInstance = new SessionFactoryManager();
+        }
+        return theInstance;
+    }
+
+    public static void setUp() {
+        // A SessionFactory is set up once for an application!
+        final StandardServiceRegistry registry = new StandardServiceRegistryBuilder()
+                .configure() // configures settings from hibernate.cfg.xml
+                .build();
+        try {
+            sessionFactory = new MetadataSources( registry ).buildMetadata().buildSessionFactory();
+        }
+        catch (Exception e) {
+            // The registry would be destroyed by the SessionFactory, but we had trouble building the SessionFactory
+            // so destroy it manually.
+            StandardServiceRegistryBuilder.destroy( registry );
+        }
+    }
+
+    public static void tearDown() {
+        try {
+            if ( sessionFactory != null ) {
+                sessionFactory.close();
+            }
+        } catch (Exception e) {
+            System.out.println("Exception!");
+        }
+    }
+
+}