Spring 2.5 HibernateDaoSupport/Annotations best practices

[tollll12]

I used to have a getter/setter for sessionFactory in the base class my DAOs extended from (which extended from HibernateDaoSupport). To get the same thing to work with annotations and Spring 2.5 I had to use constructor injection. like:

package whitney.repository.dao;

import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.HibernateDaoSupport;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

import whitney.entity.Entry;

@Repository
public class EntryDao extends HibernateDaoSupport{
	
	@Autowired
	public EntryDao(SessionFactory sessionFactory){
		super.setSessionFactory(sessionFactory);
	}
	
	public void save(Entry entry){
		this.getHibernateTemplate().save(entry);
	}	
}

This isn't really a problem, but I used to like making some of my classes autowired by default, like:

<bean id="blah" class="foo.Blah" autowired="byName"/>

I guess this just isn't possible any more if I want to use the new spring 2.5 annotations?

[ceasaro]

Check the @Resource annotation it can autowired by name. Notice you need jdk-1.6 cause the @Resource annotation is present in jdk-1.6.

Link to the springframework documentation:

http://static.springframework.org/sp...rce-annotation