advantages of using hibernatetemplate

[kasirohan]

Hi,

I am new to spring; why would one use an hibernatetemplate as
against directly making api calls to the hibernate session.

Thanks,

Kasi

[katentim]

why would one use an hibernatetemplate as
against directly making api calls to the hibernate session

To shorten code:
- no forced checked exception handling
- automatic (and proper) retrieval of the session and cleanup
To convert exceptions to a common data access exception hierarchy
To implicitly participate (possibly with JDBC) in transactions

[Costin Leau]

Also, using HibernateCallback through HibernateTemplate you can make calls directly to the session w/o the checked exceptions.