Why is “annotatedClasses” needed if there is @Entity?

Question

Hello I\'m building spring-hibernate application. Do i realy need configuration from below ?

Answer 1

Use the docs, Luke!

[...]Example for an AnnotationSessionFactoryBean bean definition:

    
    
        
            test.package.Foo
            test.package.Bar
        
    

Or when using classpath scanning for autodetection of entity classes:

As you can see you have a choice between defining all classes explicitly or only the package for scanning. does not recognize Hibernate/JPA annotations and hence has no effect.