Integrating Hibernate with Spring

摘要

Spring provides out-of-box integration points for Hibernate ORM. If you don't want any dependency on the Spring framework, you are free to use plain Hibei nate 3 API directly. Both, Hibernate and Spring offer a light weight solution. They can be used in Java SE environments without the need to use any Java EE app container. This is an asset over complex EJB 2.1 Entity beans where you need to deploy your application in full blown app server. Further, since Hibernate provides a reference implementation (RI) for the new JPA 1.0 specification, its integration with the lightweight Spring framework is getting more popular and being adopted in production applications.