can begin transaction in hibernate called while commiting/rollback

Will the below code works fine or do I need to begin transaction before doing work.

Session session = SessionFactory.openSession();

//do some work like session.save/Update

finally{
    session.beginTransaction().commit();
}

No. Of course the code being part of the transaction must be between the begin and the commit of the transaction.

Here(s what the documentation says:

The session/transaction handling idiom looks like this:

// Non-managed environment idiom
Session sess = factory.openSession();
Transaction tx = null;
try {
    tx = sess.beginTransaction();

    // do some work
    ...

    tx.commit();
}
catch (RuntimeException e) {
    if (tx != null) tx.rollback();
    throw e; // or display error message
}
finally {
    sess.close();
}

No you need to manage transaction, commit for getting immediate effect and any exceptions thrown by Hibernate are FATAL, you have to roll back the transaction and close the current session.