Restore Hibernate ORM 5.1 compatibility in HibernateTransactionManager

Issue: SPR-17557

Author: jhoeller

spring-orm/src/main/java/org/springframework/orm/hibernate5/HibernateTransactionManager.java

@@ -541,7 +541,10 @@ protected void doBegin(Object transaction, TransactionDefinition definition) {
 			// Register the Hibernate Session's JDBC Connection for the DataSource, if set.
 			if (getDataSource() != null) {
 				SessionImplementor sessionImpl = (SessionImplementor) session;
-				ConnectionHolder conHolder = new ConnectionHolder(sessionImpl::connection);
+				// The following needs to use a lambda expression instead of a method reference
+				// for compatibility with Hibernate ORM <5.2 where connection() is defined on
+				// SessionImplementor itself instead of on SharedSessionContractImplementor...
+				ConnectionHolder conHolder = new ConnectionHolder(() -> sessionImpl.connection());
 				if (timeout != TransactionDefinition.TIMEOUT_DEFAULT) {
 					conHolder.setTimeoutInSeconds(timeout);
 				}