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

If you must use Hibernate, your best bet is to ignore Code Ranch (and SO) and follow the recommendation from Spring:

http://blog.springsource.org/2012/04/06/migrating-to-spring-3-1-and-hibernate-4-1/