Easier way to wrap DAO objects with sessions?

[xaeryan]

When defining beans for my DAO objects, is there an easier way to wrap them in Hibernate sessions than the following? This becomes a bit tedious when you have 100s of classes that will be wrapped with a session:

	<bean id="myUserdataDao" class="app.UserdataVars">
		<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
	</bean>	

	<bean id="myUseraccessDao" class="app.UseraccessVars">
		<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
	</bean>	
  
	<bean id="myUsergroupDao" class="app.UsergroupVars">
		<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
	</bean>	
  
	<bean id="myWorkstationDao" class="app.WorkstationVars">
		<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
	</bean>

I've seen something like the following, but cannot get it to work since the "parent" bean has no class type:

  <bean id="daoTmpl">
    <property name="sessionFactory">
      <ref bean="sessionFactory"/>
    </property>
  </bean>

  <bean id="myObjectDao" class="app.MyObjectDao" parent="daoTmpl"/>

If the above could be modified to work, that would be ideal. Otherwise, are there any less verbose ways of doing this?

[karldmoore]

This should work, but I think you just need to mark the parent bean as abstract.

  <bean id="daoTmpl" abstract="true">
    <property name="sessionFactory">
      <ref bean="sessionFactory"/>
    </property>
  </bean>

  <bean id="myObjectDao" class="app.MyObjectDao" parent="daoTmpl"/>

[xaeryan]

Perfect, that did the job, thanks!

[karldmoore]

Perfect, that did the job, thanks!

Fantastic, glad that sorted it. This is quite a nice way of reducing the XML, it's good to keep it in mind if you use TransactionProxyFactoryBean.