Using Hibernate SessionFactory in Spring Boot App

To autowire Hibernate SessionFactory in the Spring Boot application, the SpringSessionContext - implementation of the Hibernate’s CurrentSessionContext interface - can be used.

1. Add entry in application.properties file

Specify spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.current_session_context_class property with SpringSessionContext class as the value.

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.current_session_context_class=org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SpringSessionContext

2. Bean definition

Create a bean that will attach HibernateJpaSessionFactoryBean to the container.

@Configuration
public class DBConfig {

	@Bean
	public HibernateJpaSessionFactoryBean sessionFactory() {
	    return new HibernateJpaSessionFactoryBean();
	}
	
}

3. Autowire the SessionFactory on the data layer

@Repository
public class OrderDaoImpl implements OrderDao {
	
	@Autowired
	private SessionFactory sessionFactory;
		
	// rest of code removed for brevity

}