How to configure Spring without persistence.xml?

Question

I\'m trying to set up spring xml configuration without having to create a futher persistence.xml. But I\'m constantly getting the following exception, even thou

Answer 1

MariuszS' answer is good except that the entityManagerFactory method should return EntityManagerFactory. To do that it can be written like this:

@Bean
public EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory(DataSource dataSource, JpaVendorAdapter jpaVendorAdapter) {
    LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean lef = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
    lef.setDataSource(dataSource);
    lef.setJpaVendorAdapter(jpaVendorAdapter);
    lef.setPackagesToScan("hello");
    return lef.object();
}

For future audience: below code worked:

@Bean (name = "entityManagerFactory")
public EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory(DataSource dataSource, JpaVendorAdapter jpaVendorAdapter)
{
    LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean lef = new LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean();
    lef.setDataSource(dataSource);
    lef.setJpaVendorAdapter(jpaVendorAdapter);
    lef.setPackagesToScan("*.models*");
    lef.afterPropertiesSet(); // It will initialize EntityManagerFactory object otherwise below will return null
    return lef.getObject();
}