Spring/Hibernate/Junit example of testing DAO against HSQLDB

Question

I\'m working on trying to implement a JUnit test to check the functionality of a DAO. (The DAO will create/read a basic object/table relationship).

The trouble

Answer 1

The bottom line with hibernate is the SessionFactory - your in-house solution will most likely be creating one of these somehow. Find out how, and then add a bean to create one in your test app context in the same way (or if possible using your in-house code that is used at runtime.). You may need to create your own FactoryBean to do the instantiation. (Use AbstractFactoryBean as your base class.)

Once this is in place, most of the examples using LocalSessionFactoryBean can be migrated to your situation - instead of using LocalsessionFactoryBean, use your custom factory bean.

(If you've not done so already, look at the Testing section in the spring reference - it makes testing with Spring, and injecting tests with beans from the context a breeze.)