Obtaining EntityManager in Spring + Hibernate configuration

Question

I have a Spring MVC 4.0 application, and I am learning JPA. I use Hibernate as the JPA implementation.

I can configure Hibernate as described in this tutorial. It works

Answer 1

It can be use with @Autowired as shown in https://stackoverflow.com/a/33742769/2028440

@Autowired
private EntityManager entityManager;

Answer 2

For the @PersistenceContext EntityManager entityManager; approach, add tx:annotation-driven to your .xml configuration and mark your methods where you use entityManager as @Transactional.