Using Spring's context file for Hibernate

jellyfish8899 · **Joined:** Tue Mar 23, 2004 8:40 pm **Posts:** 22

I have all my Hibernate settings within a Spring file (i.e. applicationContext-hibernate.xml) instead of hibernate.cfg.xml, how can I refer to the Hibernate settings for the Hibernate Tools (e.g. Ant Task "hibernatetool" and Eclipse plugin) to work?

Code:

<!--
applicationContext-hibernate.xml
-->
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN"
    "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">

<beans>
    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
        <!-- jdbc information is defined in jdbc.properties -->
        <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}"/>
        <property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}"/>
        <property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}"/>
        <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}"/>
    </bean>
    
    <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
        
        <property name="mappingResources">
            <list>
                <value>com/microsoft/model/User.hbm.xml</value>
                <value>com/microsoft/model/Department.hbm.xml</value>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.cglib.use_reflection_optimizer">false</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.Oracle9Dialect</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.use_sql_comments">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.generate_statistics">false</prop> 
                <prop key="use_reflection_optimizer">false</prop>                
             </props>
        </property>
     </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="userDAO" class="com.microsoft.dao.hibernate.UserDAOHibernate">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
    </bean>

    <bean id="departmentDAO" class="com.microsoft.dao.hibernate.DepartmentDAOHibernate">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
    </bean>

</beans>

Thanks in advance.

Martin

max · **Posted:** Fri May 26, 2006 6:01 pm

That would require the tools to be dependent on Spring....not really optimal plus your setup there is dependent on a datasource which is most likely not available via ant nor eclipse.

So in short it is not supported out of the box and don't know why you just don't use hibernate.cfg.xml since your are not doing anything in that spring setup that hibernate.cfg.xml doesn't handle (hibernate configuration wise that is)

...but i guess we could allow for some generic <generic-configuration> element that could handle this.....how do you get a Configuration from this file *without* creating a SessionFactory ?

lutzh · **Joined:** Mon Jul 25, 2005 11:30 am **Posts:** 4

Or you could leave the hibernate configuration in hibernate.cfg.xml and use the configLocation property of the LocalSessionFactoryBean. That way you'd just have one configuration that you can use for both, only that it's not in the applicationContext.xml file.

hth,

Lutz

max · **Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 2:45 pm

exactly...