How to use HibernateItemWriter with Hibernate 4?

[jorrit]

Hi all,

When using hibernate 3, the following code works:

	
         <bean id="ivsHibernateWriter"
		class="org.springframework.batch.item.database.HibernateItemWriter">
		<property name="hibernateTemplate" ref="hibernateTemplate"/>
		<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
	</bean>
	
	<bean class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate" id="hibernateTemplate" >
		<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
	</bean>

After upgrading my test failes with this exception:

org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SessionHolder cannot be cast to org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SessionHolder

I thought of changing the hibernateTemplate bean to be inline with hibernate 4, like so:

	
         <bean class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTemplate" id="hibernateTemplate" >
		<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
	</bean>

However, this class does not exist.

How should we work with Hibernate4 and spring Batch?

[vksilveira]

Looks like you don't, since this issue is still open: https://jira.springsource.org/browse/BATCH-1904