HibernateTemplate vs HibernateDaoSupport vs SessionFactory Injection

Question

I have seen in lot of forums and still in confusion. We are starting a new project with Spring 3.1 & Hibernate 4 and need to decide which strategy to use for Hibernate with

Answer 1

Spring itself recommends not using HibernateTemplate anymore, in the javadoc of the class. You can declare the session factory as a Spring bean directly, inject it as any other Spring bean in your own components, and use the native Hibernate API directly (using sessionFactory.getCurrentSession()).