Spring hibernate template when to use and why?

Question

Greetings, Currently developing small web service application where response from web service (using CXF + Spring) processed and saved to database. To work with database I a

Answer 1

Let me clarify one thing that Spring's HibernateTemplate will not be supported going forward, that means Hibernate 4+ versions do not support HibernateTemplate. So it is advised to use declarative transaction management as suggested by Sean.