Creating Springless Hibernate DAO

[nedry]

I am trying to follow the advice of Craig Wells, in the Spring in Action book in order to create a Springless DAO to utilize hibernate aka hibernate contextual sessions.

I started with the following.

protected HibernateTemplate hibernateTemplate= null;

    @Autowired

    public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
        hibernateTemplate = new HibernateTemplate(sessionFactory);
    }

    @Override
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public Collection<Asset> findAssets() throws DataAccessException {
        return hibernateTemplate.find("from Asset");


    }

I wanted to change it to

protected SessionFactory sessionFactory= null;

    @Autowired
    public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
        this.sessionFactory = sessionFactory;

    }

    @Override
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    public Collection<Asset> findAssets() throws DataAccessException {
        return sessionFactory.getCurrentSession().find("from Asset");


    }

It works, however I am noticing that getCurrentSession returns a "classic" session and most of the needed methods there like find() are deprecated. What is the recommended approach such that I retrieve a non "classic" Session.

I am using Hibernate 3.6 and Spring 3.06