Spring Hibernate configuration

We know that Hibernate is a persistence framework that provides relationship mapping between objects and database tables and that it has rich features to improve performance and the optimal use of resources such as caching, eager and lazy loading, event listeners, and so on.

The Spring Framework provides full support to integrate many persistence ORM frameworks, and so does Hibernate. Here, we will see Spring with JPA, using Hibernate as a persistence provider. Also, we will see Spring Data with the JPA repository using Hibernate.

Spring with JPA using Hibernate

As we know, JPA is not an implementation; it is the specification for persistence. The Hibernate framework follows all of the specifications, and it also has its own additional features. Using the JPA specification in an application enables us to easily switch the persistence provider later if needed.

To use Hibernate on its own requires SessionFactory, and to use Hibernate with JPA requires EntityManager...