Question

How do I get Spring to load Hibernate’s properties from hibernate.cfg.xml?

We’re using Spring and JPA (with Hibernate as the implementation). Spring’s applicationContext.xml specifies the JPA dialect and Hibernate properties:

<bean id='entityManagerFactory' class='org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalEntityManagerFactoryBean'>     <property name='jpaDialect'>         <bean class='org.springframework.orm.jpa.vendor.HibernateJpaDialect' />     </property>     <property name='jpaProperties'>         <props>             <prop key='hibernate.dialect'>org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect</prop>         </props>     </property> </bean> 

In this configuration, Spring is reading all the Hibernate properties via applicationContext.xml . When I create a hibernate.cfg.xml (located at the root of my classpath, the same level as META-INF), Hibernate doesn’t read it at all (it’s completely ignored).

What I’m trying to do is configure Hibernate second level cache by inserting the cache properties in hibernate.cfg.xml:

<cache      usage='transactional|read-write|nonstrict-read-write|read-only'     region='RegionName'     include='all|non-lazy' /> 

Answer 1

Try something like this…

<bean     id='mySessionFactory'     class='org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean'>      <property name='configLocation'>             <value>             classpath:location_of_config_file/hibernate.cfg.xml         </value>     </property>      <property name='hibernateProperties'>         <props>              ...               </props>         </property>  </bean>