Doc: Spring 3.x and Hibernate 4 are not compatible. Unable to use HibernateTemplate. [SPR-9365]

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Augustine Parthinathan opened SPR-9365 and commented

While using Spring HibernateTemplate with the combination of Spring 3.1 and Hibernate 4, we are getting the following exception.

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SessionHolder cannot be cast to org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SessionHolder
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SessionFactoryUtils.doGetSession(SessionFactoryUtils.java:287)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.SessionFactoryUtils.getSession(SessionFactoryUtils.java:233)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.getSession(HibernateTemplate.java:457)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.doExecute(HibernateTemplate.java:393)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.executeWithNativeSession(HibernateTemplate.java:374)
	at org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTemplate.loadAll(HibernateTemplate.java:584)

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Issue Links:

• Re-consider including HibernateTemplate and related classes for Hibernate 4 [SPR-11291] #15915 Re-consider including HibernateTemplate and related classes for Hibernate 4

Referenced from: commits 8cf61c5, be606f4

Backported to: 3.1.4

1 votes, 3 watchers

[spring-projects-issues]

Bilguun Bayarmagnai commented

I think spring hibernateTemplates are no longer supported with hibernate 4. Use plain sessionFactory instead

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Oliver Drotbohm commented

HibernateTemplate is not supposed to be used with Hibernate 4 as it resides in the hibernate3 package. So if you want to upgrade to Hibernate 4 use the Hibernate API directly.

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Augustine Parthinathan commented

If Spring3.1 HibernateTemplate has been designed not to support Hibernate 4, then it should throw an appropriate error message in the exception. But, we are getting a ClassCastException.

Also the javadoc for the package org.springframework.orm.hibernate4 does not give any clue that HibernateTemplate is no longer supported. Please refer following URL http://static.springsource.org/spring/docs/3.1.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/orm/hibernate4/package-summary.html.

It should either be a defect or this information should be included in the documentation or javadoc.

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Oliver Drotbohm commented

Re-assigning to Jürgen for further review.

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Juergen Hoeller commented

Added corresponding hint to hibernate4 package summary.

Note that the Hibernate3 version of HibernateTemplate isn't even aware of the existence of Hibernate4; it just expects the right Hibernate version to be there. Those hibernateX support packages are completely independent, after all.

Juergen