Hibernate IoC

[analogueboy]

I've been reading thru the hibernate config code (and google) to see if I could configure Hibernate at a lower level with Spring. I'd like to be able to configure a cache provider in spring (jndi reference to jbosscache) and pass that cache provider to hibernate rather than a string property that contains the name of a class that requires a no-arg constructor.

I did think of creating a class that would implement the interface and delegate the calls to a class loaded from spring, but it means referencing my beanfactory from another location.

Has anyone else tried this? Does anyone else see the benefit?

[analogueboy]

Quite a few people have read this (and none answered :@ !), but I've been looking into it and have started a thread on the hibernate forum for anyone interested

http://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic...225494#2225494

You'll notice that it's about as popular there too

[analogueboy]

Forgot to say, to achieve this with the minimum number of changes I've had to add a method to LocalSessionFactoryBean to take a map and add the values to the existing hibernateProperties. could/should this be added to existing class as extension seems like over kill?