Spring & HIbernate Integration

[Manikandan Swaminathan]

Hi ranchers,

Just want to know how to integrate spring & hibernate in an web application.I googled and found the following.
1. Configuring webapplicationcontext as a context listener in web.xml
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>

In one of applications which we support they have used spring,hibernate & EJB also.But, i was not able to find the above configuration in web.xml.Rather i found something as follows:

<bean id="UserEJBBean" class="org.springframework.ejb.access.SimpleRemoteStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean" lazy-init="true">

<property name="jndiName">
<value>ManageUserEJBJNDI</value>
</property>
<property name="businessInterface">
<value>.....<package>..............ManageUserEJB</value>
</property>
<property name="lookupHomeOnStartup" value="false"/>
</bean>

I can understand from the above code, that "SimpleRemoteStatelessSessionProxyFactoryBean" is used for JNDI lookup.
From the managed bean,the lookup is as follows: Mangedbean --> EJB --> (service layer) Interface --> Impl --> DAO (Interface & Impl) --> Hibernate --> DB etc..

Now, my doubt is how spring is integrated with hibernate here?? Is there any other way??
I am really confused.
Please, please help me understand.

Thanks a lot for your time

[Mark Spritzler]

Hibernate is integrated into Spring by having a bean in your Spring configuration file where the class is LocalSessionFactoryBean or one of its subclasses. This is not in your web.xml.

This FactoryBean creates a Hibernate SessionFactory.

Mark