Spring Hibernate - difference between CrudRepository and SessionFactory

Question

I am looking into persisting my model using Hibernate. I seem to find two approaches to do this.

The first one is using SessionFactory, for example:

Answer 1

Merely you can find description for these annotations on the Spring docs site.

Shortly, to answer your questions the difference between them is they are used for different purposes.

• @Transactional is used to demarcate code involved into transaction. It's placed on classes and methods.

• @Repository is used to define a Spring bean that support transactions, it can be used in DI as well.

They can be used both on the same class.