Java Persistence with Spring Data and Hibernate

14 Integrating JPA and Hibernate with Spring

This chapter covers

• Introducing Spring Framework and dependency injection
• Examining the data access object (DAO) design pattern
• Creating and generifying a Spring JPA application using the DAO design pattern
• Creating and generifying a Spring Hibernate application using the DAO design pattern

In this chapter, we’ll analyze a few different possibilities for integrating Spring and Hibernate. Spring is a lightweight but also flexible and universal Java framework. It is open source, and it can be used at the level of any layer in a Java application. We’ll investigate the principles behind the Spring Framework (dependency injection, also known as inversion of control), and we’ll use Spring together with ...