Hibernate Annotation Autodiscovery and Autoconfiguration

["Edward Sumerfield" <esumerfd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Two questions today:

1) I have hibernate 3 annotations buzzing along just fine all configured in Spring 2 but, being a lazy fellow, I don't want to have to add every entity into the Spring config file. Instead, I would like an autodiscovery mechanism to find the @Entity annotated classes and add them to Spring config automatically.

Before I go off an write such a thing perhaps someone knows of an existing solution.

        <property name="annotatedClasses">
            <list>
                <value>org.acme.entity.Customer
</value>
            </list>
        </property>

2) I am using the HibernateDaoSupport class and so have two beans configured for every Dao that I write. Is there a simple way to condense the bean declarations needed to add a Dao? This is what I have at the moment for a single Dao and the only difference between Daos is the word "Acme", all the rest is vanilla template code.

Is there a simpler way than code generation?

    <bean
        id="acmeDaoTarget"
        class="org.acme.dao.AcmeDaoImpl"
        autowire="byName" />

    <bean
        id="org.acme.dao.AcmeDao"
        class="org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean">
        <property name="proxyInterfaces">
            <value>
org.acme.dao.AcmeDao</value>
        </property>
        <property name="interceptorNames">
            <list>
                <value>hibernateInterceptor</value>
                <value>acmeDaoTarget</value>
            </list>
        </property>
    </bean>

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Ed