Simultaneous use of Hibernate and Spring data jpa?

Question

Is it possible to use Spring Data JPA (backed by Hibernate as JPA provider) and directly use Hibernate at the same time?

The problem is that when i use JpaTransactionMan

Answer 1

Instead of creating a SessionFactory, use EntityManager.unwrap(Session.class) to get a Hibernate Session and retrieve the session factory from the Session object.

You can also use EntityManagerFactory.unwrap(SessionFactory.class) to get the Hibernate SessionFactory directly.