Question

I read a bean code under spring-app.xml

<bean id="mySessionFactory"
            class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="myDataSource" />
        <property name="annotatedClasses">
            <list>
                <value>com.mmi.education.dao.User</value>
            </list>
        </property>
        <property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>
            </props>
        </property>
    </bean>

Instead of property annotatedClasses, I want to specify the package.

Is it possible?

Also what are the valid properties that can be specified under bean tag?

Answer 1

<property name="packagesToScan">
        <list>
            <value>com.mmi.education.dao</value>
        </list>
    </property>

Check Spring’s documentation here for other properties.