Question

I currently scan packages for DAOs and services using Spring 3.1 & Hibernate 4 via <context:component-scan> Is there a way to do the same for classes marked @Entity instead of using the configLocation property and a hbm.xml file?

<hibernate-configuration>
    <session-factory>
        <mapping class="com.example.model.User" />
            <!-- etc. -->
    </session-factory>
</hibernate-configuration>

Answer 1

<bean id="sessionFactory"
  class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean"
  p:dataSource-ref="dataSource"
  p:configLocation="WEB-INF/classes/hibernate.cfg.xml"
  p:packagesToScan="com.example.model"
/>

Will scan everything in model package. I use my cfg.xml to contains settings like show_sql, and hb2ddl.auto.