Question

I do not use HibernateTemplate, but work with getCurrentSession() in my DAO.

I would like to know how to declare Hibernate named queries in a beans.xml file (I do not use hbm.xml).

And maybe Spring has alternative means to declare Hibernate named queries?

Answer 1

You can put named queries on the entity using annotations:

@NamedQueries({@NamedQuery(name="Entity.findAll", query="....")})

Also, if using JPA, there’s orm.xml, The XSD tells us that you can use:

<named-query name="Entity.findAll">
   <query><![CDATA[SELECT e FROM Entity e]]</query>
</named-query>