Question

Is it possible to define a spring-managed EJB3 hibernate listener?

I have this definition in my persistence.xml:

<properties>      <property name='hibernate.ejb.interceptor'         value='my.class.HibernateAuditInterceptor' />      <property name='hibernate.ejb.event.post-update'         value='my.class.HibernateAuditTrailEventListener' />  </properties> 

But I would like to manage HibernateAuditInterceptor and HibernateAuditTrailEventListener with spring, so I can do some bean injection (ex: session-scoped bean) within these classes. Is this possible?

Answer 1

The problem is that those properties are just strings. Even if you define your SessionFactory as a Spring bean, any properties you pass to it through the hibernateProperties setter are just strings:

<bean id='mySessionFactory' class='org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean'>     <property name='dataSource'ref='myDataSource'/>     <property name='mappingResources'>         <list>             <value>whatever.hbm.xml</value>         </list>     </property>     <property name='hibernateProperties'>         <value>             hibernate.ejb.interceptor= my.class.HibernateAuditInterceptor         </value>         <value>             hibernate.ejb.event.post-update=my.class.HibernateAuditTrailEventListener         </value>     </property> </bean> 

So I don’t think you can do that.