Is there a way of getting HibernateDaoSupport working in JBoss AS7/EAP6?

Hello,
This is related to http://forum.springsource.org/showth...onversion-stra

I am porting a large application from EAP 4.3 to EAP 6.0 (JBoss AS7.1). The legacy app uses Hibernate 3.3.2.GA and Spring 3.0.6. I confirmed all our exceptions occur in Spring 3.1.1 as well. I'm looking to finding the shortest path to getting my Spring context started so I can then work on doing deeper fixes in a working app.

I found out that HibernateDaoSupport is the class throwing my error.

1. Did I wire something wrong?
2. We have a huge investment in SpringHibernate integration. Is there a way to just inject the Hibernate 4 JPA Persistence context bundled with AS7/EAP6 into HibernateDaoSupport? I realize that JPA provides most of what HibernateDaoSupport already does, but right now, I'd like to get my app started before I do deep changes.
3. Any other possible strategies I can take to getting my SpringContext started?
4. Any idea why this would work in 4.3 and fail in 6?

Error:
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Cannot convert value of type [org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFac toryBean] to required type [org.hibernate.SessionFactory] for property 'sessionFactory': no matching editors or conversion strategy found
My code:

Code:

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import org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.HibernateDaoSupport;

public class HibernateTest extends HibernateDaoSupport {  /**/}

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My config:

Code:

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  <jee:jndi-lookup id="dataSource" jndi-name="myJNDILookupKey" expected-type="javax.sql.DataSource" />
  <bean id="simpleSessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
    <property name="mappingLocations">
      <value>classpath:/config/hibernate/mappings/*.hbm.xml</value>
    </property>
    <property name="hibernateProperties">
      <props>
        <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernatespatial.oracle.OracleSpatial10gDialect</prop>
      </props>
    </property>
  </bean>
  <bean id="simplestTest" class="HibernateTest">
    <property name="sessionFactory">
      <ref bean="simpleSessionFactory" />
    </property>
  </bean>

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Thanks in advance!
Steven