Apparently to get LocalSessionFactoryBean to actually be able to use a session during a web page, one must use the OpenSessionInViewInterceptor.
I've managed to modify the example code from the SpringBlog application that comes with the book, Pro Spring to do just that. Seems to work ok.

Now the tricky part. I'd like to have junit tests that test the configuration of hibernate and spring in a config as much like the production environment as possible.

So, I've created a fragment spring/hibernate xml config that includes the data source, transaction manager, sessionfactorybean, hibernate config and a dao object.
However, not being able to use OpenSessionInViewInterceptor here has me confused as to what I might do to open and close the session for the duration of the junit test.

My PackageDoa object extends HibernateDaoSupport, which in the config gets LocalSessionFactoryBean, which in turn gets a datasource.

TransactionProxyFactoryBean is used to proxy for PackageDao. TransactionProxyFactoryBean gets a SessionFactoryBean.

So I have this in my unit test:

PackageDAO dao = (PackageDAO) factory
.getBean("packageDAO");

However, I get the error, "could not initialize proxy - the owning Session was closed" just like before I added the OpenSessionInViewInterceptor to the servlet config, however, now, no servlet...

What does one do?

thanks


-j

Go to the Spring forum.

Or a JUnit forum or any general web development forum where things like this would be common problems. This has nothing to do with Hibernate beyond the fact that you're using it as a library.