How to initialise Hibernate from existing hibernate.cfg.xml?

[zhirenshao]

I had an existing project using Hibernate and now want to move to Spring.

The demo on Spring reference sets all hibernate properties for LocalSessionFactoryBean. However, as I read the Spring Javadoc of LocalSessionFactoryBean class, you can actually specify an existing hibernate.cfg.xml file. (LocalSessionFactoryBean.setConfigLocation(Resourc e configLocation) ).

My question is, how do I configure this in my applicationContext.xml file?
I guess it should be something look like this, but not exactly sure:

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSes sionFactoryBean">
<property name="configLocation">
<value>/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
</property>
</bean>

because the setConfigLocation takes a Resource parameter, but not a String, so I guess I must do something to get a Resource bean which is my hibernate.cfg.xml

[katentim]

You can try:

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
  <property name="configLocation">
    <value>classpath&#58;hibernate.cfg.xml</value>
  </property>
</bean>

[zhirenshao]

Thanks a lot!!