How to get Hibernate Session ?

[yglodt]

Hi,

I have a Spring MVC project where a dataSource is configured in the following files:

• META-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml
• META-INF/spring/database.properties
• META-INF/persistence.xml

The dataSource seems to be set up correctly, since Hibernate creates the tables on Tomcat start-up.

In my previous Hibernate projects (which were not Spring-based) I used to have the famous HibernateUtil Class which I could get a Hibernate Session from, and do my database-related work.

Obviously HibernateUtil is not needed any more with Spring...

But how can I get the Session?

Edit: Or should I go for EntityManager? If yes, how can I get an instance?

Best regards,
Yves

[Marten Deinum]

I suggest the reference guide which explains this in quite some detail. you want to read the chapter about hibernate and especially the part about implementing plain hibernate daos.

[yglodt]

Thanks for the guidance!

I am currently reading http://static.springsource.org/sprin.../html/orm.html, chapter 13.3 seems to be what I need.