Spring 3.1, Hibernate 4, SessionFactory

Question

This was working:

Answer 1

• In the case of Hibernate 4.0 or higher, as of Spring 4.0, you should use

org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean

For example:

    ...

See http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/orm/hibernate4/LocalSessionFactoryBean.html

• In the case of Hibernate 5.0/5.1/5.2, as of Spring 4.3, you should better instead use

org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean

(See http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/orm/hibernate5/LocalSessionFactoryBean.html)