Is it safe to pass in the Spring Application Context into a ThreadLocal associated with a request?

Question

In JPA I want to utilize the PrePersist annotated method to perform some operations but rather than making the things it needs to implement the Singleton pattern (w

Answer 1

If you can use Hibernate event listeners I wrote once a response with a possible approach for Spring managed event listeners here:

Using Hibernate 4's Integrator pattern and Spring's dependency injection