Hi all,

After looking at various tutorials im still a bit confused on how to add hibernate to my spring app.

My spring app is very simple, i just have a simple form - which i now need to store in a database table.

-I have a simple jsp file as the view
- controller
- a bean which holds the form info
- and a validator.

All the configuration is done in the myapp-servlet.xml file which is referenced in my web.xml file. And i use a simple ant script to run my app.

Since im trying to add hibernate persistance to my app, ive done the following:

-created a myform.hbm.xml file which maps each form field to a table coloum.
-made a hibernate.cfg.xml file which has all the db info and references the myform.hbm.xml file
-created a dao which has simple get and setters

Is this right - what else do i need to do now?

Here is where im stuck, where do i call the doa so all the form information is stored in the table, in the bean i mentioned in the spring app? or make a new class for that. Also what other configuration does my app need to work?

Thanks for any help :)

hi,
ur .hbm.xml file save where is ur persitance classes are avaiable like in dao folder and paste ur hibernate.cfg file in classes folder or ur application if ur using the tomcat as a server.
i think it will solve ur problem
reagrds,
nitin

hmm ok, but does someone know if i call the dao in the form bean or another bean, ie. a formbeanmanager

Could someone recommend some books that show how to integrate hibernate with a spring app. Ive got Agile Java Development With Spring, Hibernate and Eclipse - but that doesnt really cover the integration of hibernate in spring very well.

spring in action covers hibernate + spring and I have found it quite useful. Spring's integration with Hibernate is so good, I've never used one without the other. In fact, I don't know how to use Hibernate without Spring.

That might have been true in the old days with Hibernate 2, now it's just not true.



You know, it's a lot less code without it. But then you seem happy.