Integrating Hibernate with Spring
Hibernate is a persistence ORM Framework, it is open source, and it provides not only simple object relationship mapping between Java objects and database tables, but also provides a lot of sophisticated features for your application to improve performance, and helps in better resource utilization such as caching, lazy loading, eager fetching, and distributed caching.
Spring Framework provides full support to integrate the Hibernate Framework, and Spring has some inbuilt libraries for full utilization of the Hibernate Framework. We can use Spring's DI pattern and IoC container to configure Hibernate in your application.
Let's see in the following section how to configure Hibernate in the Spring IoC container.
Configuring Hibernate's SessionFactory in a Spring container
As the best approach for configuring Hibernate and other persistence technologies in any enterprise application, business objects should be separate from the hard-coded resource lookups such as...