Question

I am using spring 2.5 with HibernateDaoSupport. My doubt is, do I still require Hibernate jar files for support of HibernateDaoSupport.

I did a sample example in netbeans. I unchecked the hibernate jar library and the application is still working.

But is it correctly working with the HibernateDaoSupport class without using Hibernate jar files..

Answer 1

HibernateDaoSupport is present in Spring jars. It is used to provide support to Hibernate-based data access objects. If you plan in using Hibernate for read/write into DB, you will require the hibernate jar.

Please check out the following link for more details:

http://www.vaannila.com/spring/spring-hibernate-integration-1.html