I was reading an article by Vigil Bose on TSS the other day and saw the usage of the HibernateDaoSupport class. Since this is no longer a recommended way of using Hibernate from Spring, I thought I might as well just blog about it another time.
With the advent of Spring 2.0, it has become possible to start using the Hibernate Session API directly again. The question is whether or not it is wise to abandon the use of the HibernateTemplate when working with Hibernate, or any other template-based approaches Spring features.

An ORM mapping tool such as Hibernate can easily map this domain model to a database backend. However, since the employee data comes from LDAP, hibernate out of box cannot create the mapping between Project and Employee domain objects. One way to solve this problem would be to implement a custom EntityPersister. In this post I will show a simple hack for achieving this using JPA EntityListeners.