Hibernate/Spring: Session still closed before retrieval of child collection even with @Transactional on Service method

Question

Hello Spring/Hibernate Gurus!

in a time like this i would like you to be my best friends.I am working on a project using hibernate 3.6.1.Final JPA implementation using s

Answer 1

Does this happen when rendering the view? If it is the case you might want to consider using Spring's OpenSessionInViewFilter. This will bind the Session to the thread for the entire processing of the request. If using JPA you can use OpenEntityManagerInViewFilter.

In your web.xml:

    OpenSessionInViewFilter
    org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewFilter
    
        sessionFactoryBeanName
        sessionFactory
    



    OpenSessionInViewFilter
    /*