hibernate session.save() does not reflect in database

When you create session using SessionFactory.openSession(), no transaction is created, so your operations are executed outside of transaction context. In order to see your changes, you have to start a new transaction, or perform your operations as a part of ongoing transaction. From documentation:

A typical transaction should use the following idiom:

Session sess = factory.openSession();
 Transaction tx;
 try {
     tx = sess.beginTransaction();
     //do some work
     ...
     tx.commit();
 }
 catch (Exception e) {
     if (tx!=null) tx.rollback();
     throw e;
 }
 finally {
     sess.close();
 }