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

Now SessionFactory is recomended for Hibernate 4 for open/close connection automatically. So no need to use HibernateTemplate class.