Using Hibernate and Jdbc both in Spring Framework 3.0

Question

I am working on a project which uses Spring 3.0, hibernate 3.0. My project has Controller, Service and DAO layers. Daos(written in hibernate) are accessed from service layer

Answer 1

I am writing this answer in hope that people will improve mine answer as this may not be the best answer so please comment.

In hibernate you can use named native query example : http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/JPA/UsingNamedNativeQuery.htm Scroll a little bit down and find File: Professor.java You can use this example. This way you can fire native queries from hibernate.