Hibernate 4 AnnotationSessionFactoryBean

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Hibernate 4 AnnotationSessionFactoryBean

Hibernate 4 AnnotationSessionFactoryBean

How to use AnnotationSessionFactoryBean in Hibernate 4? Can it be used?


In this tutorial we are going to explain you about Hibernate4 AnnotationSessionFactoryBean which is not available in Hibernate 4. As a part of migration process of your Hibernate 3 application to Hibernate 4 you have to make necessary changes in your configuration files. This tutorial explains you how to update from Hibernate 3 to Hibernate 4.

Here is the video tutorial of: "How to use Hibernate 4 AnnotationSessionFactoryBean?"

If you use the following code in your Hibernate 4 application it will give you the error. Code used in Spring 3:

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean"/>

Application may give the following error:

nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Lorg/hibernate/cache/CacheProvider;

So, you have to use the org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean instead of AnnotationSessionFactoryBean. So this change is required as a process of migration to Hibernate 4.

In the Hibernate 4 the CacheProvider-related interfaces and classes has been removed. Now the RegionFactory related cache interfaces are available for secondary level caching.

Here is the complete code of using the LocalSessionFactoryBean instead of AnnotationSessionFactoryBean in Hibernate 4 applications:

<bean id="sessionFactory"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
</bean>

<bean id="transactionManager"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
</bean>

You can include the above code in your application configuration file.

More tutorials of Hibernate 4:

Tutorials

  1. Introduction To Hibernate 4.0
  2. Complete Hibernate 4.0 Tutorial
  3. Hibernate 4 Tutorial
  4. What's New In Hibernate 4.0 release
  5. Hibernate Architecture
  6. Download Hibernate 4
  7. Hibernate create POJO classes
  8. Hibernate Configuration File
  9. First Hibernate Application
  10. First Hibernate 4 Example with Eclipse
  11. Hibernate 4 Supported Databases List
  12. Hibernate generator Element
  13. Hibernate 4 Annotations
  14. Hibernate 4 Annotation Example
  15. Hibernate 4 One to One Mapping using Annotation
  16. Hibernate 4 One to Many mapping using Annotation
  17. Hibernate One to One Mapping using XML
  18. Hibernate 4 One to Many mapping using XML
  19. Hibernate 4 Many to Many Mapping using Annotation
  20. Hibernate 4 Many to Many Mapping using Xml
  21. Hibernate update Method
  22. Hibernate persist Method
  23. Hibernate saveOrUpdate Method
  24. Hibernate SELECT Clause
  25. Hibernate FROM Clause
  26. Hibernate One to Many Bi-directional Mapping
  27. Hibernate WHERE Clause
  28. Hibernate ORDER BY Clause
  29. Introduction To Hibernate Query Language (HQL)
  30. Hibernate One to One Bi-directional Mapping
  31. Hibernate One to Many Indexed Mapping
  32. Hibernate One to many XML Mapping bag example
  33. Hibernate One to Many XML Mapping list Example
  34. Hibernate One to many XML mapping array Example
  35. Hibernate One to Many Self Join using Annotations
  36. Hibernate GROUP BY Clause
  37. Hibernate Many to Many Self Join using Annotations
  38. Hibernate update Query
  39. Hibernate delete Query
  40. Hibernate insert Query