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Hibernate: Supporting Spring DataSourceTransactionManager (and @Transactional) programmatically with SessionFactoryUtils

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

Here is the minimum code to support DataSourceTransactionManager thread bound session  (similar to OpenSessionInViewInterceptor).

For each thread:

public void beginThreadSession(SessionFactory sessionFactory){

  Session session = SessionFactoryUtils.getSession(sessionFactory, true);
  TransactionSynchronizationManager.bindResource(sessionFactory,
                                               new SessionHolder(session));

}
public void endThreadSession(SessionFactory sessionFactory){

  SessionHolder sessionHolder =
    (SessionHolder) TransactionSynchronizationManager.unbindResource(sessionFactory);
  SessionFactoryUtils.closeSession(sessionHolder.getSession());

}

DataSourceTransactionManager will pickup the thread bound session with SessionFactoryUtils. The trick is calling the “un/bindResource” methods. This set one session for all your requests and transactions for a given thread (and use the @transactional if you have configured it as follow).

<aop:config proxy-target-class="true"/>

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="configurationClass" value="org.hibernate.cfg.AnnotationConfiguration"/>
    <property name="configLocation" value="config/hibernate.cfg.xml"/>
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>

<tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager"/>

<bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DataSourceTransactionManager">
    <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
</bean>

Obviously, this is the strict minimum code (good of unit testing for example). For Web App, use the OpenSessionInViewInterceptor.

<bean id="openSessionInView"
class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor">
    <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
    <!-- optional
    <property name="flushModeName" value="FLUSH_NEVER" />
    -->
</bean>

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Spring:Bean definition inheritance

Monday, June 8th, 2009 
<bean id="inheritedTestBean" abstract="true"
    class="org.springframework.beans.TestBean">
  <property name="name" value="parent"/>
  <property name="age" value="1"/>
</bean>

<bean id="inheritsWithDifferentClass"
      class="org.springframework.beans.DerivedTestBean"
      parent="inheritedTestBean" init-method="initialize">

  <property name="name" value="override"/>
  <!-- the age property value of 1 will be inherited from  parent -->

</bean>

See Spring Doc: Bean definition inheritance

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Spring: Init and Destroy Bean Lifecycle

Friday, April 10th, 2009
<bean id=”myBean” class=”my.SomeClass”
init-method=”setup”
destroy-method=”teardown”>
…
</bean>
public class SomeClass {
…
public void setup() {
…
}

public void teardown() {
…
}
}

See also

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Spring: Error Cannot convert value of type [$Proxy...] to required type

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009

In Spring, if you get an error like:

Error Cannot convert value of type [$Proxy...] to required type

It might be because you are using Spring AOP (e.g., @transactional annotations) with “interface-proxy” mode (the Default) rather than “class-proxy” mode. To setup “class-proxy” do the following:

  1. Copy aspectjweaver.jar and aspectjrt.jar to your Web application classpath (you can find these files in the Spring Distribution/lib/aspectj
  2. Add the following in the your app context xml:
    <aop:config proxy-target-class=”true”/>

See also:

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