why is hibernate with spring also used without utilizing hibernate template feature.

[Monica Shiralkar]

spring provides hibernate template but i have seen code where spring is used with hibernate but without utilizing hibernate template feature.Is there some reason that sometimes we should use hibernate with spring but not using hibernate template.?

thanks.

[Bin Smith]

Hello!

This link gives the following explanation:

LocalSessionFactoryBean is the preferred way of obtaining a reference to a specific Hibernate SessionFactory, at least in a non-EJB environment. The Spring application context will manage its lifecycle, initializing and shutting down the factory as part of the application.

[Mark Spritzler]

Monica. Shiralkar wrote:spring provides hibernate template but i have seen code where spring is used with hibernate but without utilizing hibernate template feature.Is there some reason that sometimes we should use hibernate with spring but not using hibernate template.?

thanks.

If you are using Hibernate but older versions than 3.1, then the template was helpful because it would hide boiler plate Hibernate code.

Since 3.1 Hibernate no longer has any boilerplate code or checked Exceptions, so if you are using Hibernate 3.1 you will get no benefit using the template in Spring.

Mark

[Monica Shiralkar]

Thanks.