Best Way to Inject Hibernate Session by Spring 3

Question

I am not sure whats the best way to inject Hibernate\'s session instance to DAO classes using Spring3. I am not using Spring\'s Hibernate Template support for this so here i

Answer 1

A combination of skaffman's post and Sean's plus the use of annotations.

Dao

@Respository("productDao")
public class ProductDaoImpl implements ProductDao {

    @Autowired
        private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

            public Collection loadProductsByCategory(String category) {
                    return this.sessionFactory.getCurrentSession()
                        .createQuery(
                            "from test.Product product where product.category=?")
                        .setParameter(0, category)
                        .list();
        }
}

xml

  
    
    
    
    
  

  
    
    
      
        product.hbm.xml
      
    
    
      
        hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.HSQLDialect