Spring Dynamic Modules and Hibernate

I'm currently working on a Sourceforge project.
On the server side I want to use Spring DM and Hibernate.
Eclipse RCP and Spring DM builds the client.

I spent the last few evenings trying and searching for a working Spring DM/Hibernate example. I had a lot of classloading issues.
Yesterday I got it to work, you can download the plug-in here.

It's a simple application handling a User object and using HSQL as database.

I added all the dependent jars in the /lib directory. You can create separated plug-ins for them if you want.
Here a list of all the jar files, because thats where I had my problems:

• cglib-nodep-2.1_3.jar
• commons-collections.jar
• commons-dbcp.jar
• commons-pool.jar
• dom4j-1.6.1.jar
• hibernate3.jar
• hsqldb.jar
• jta.jar
• spring-core.jar
• spring-jdbc.jar
• spring-orm.jar
• spring-tx.jar // why is the org.springframework.dao package in this jar?
  

You can access the service in the Test class:

package com.blogspot.swissdev.springservice;

import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;

/**
*
* @author Flavio Donze 
*/
public class Test {

  private BundleContext context = Activator.getDefault().getContext();

  public void start() {
      System.out.println("starting the test...");

      UserService service = (UserService) context.getService(context.getServiceReference(UserService.class.getName()));
   
      User user = (User) context.getService(context.getServiceReference(User.class.getName()));
      user.setPassword("pass");
      user.setUsername("user");
      service.store(user);

      for (User u : service.findAll())
      {
          System.out.println("User: "+u.getId() + ", " + u.getUsername() + ", " + u.getPassword());
      }
  }
}

And here is my Spring configuration:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.5.xsd">

  <bean id="propertyConfigurer" class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer">
      <property name="location" value="META-INF/spring/database.properties"/>
  </bean>

  <bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
      <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}"/>
      <property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}"/>
      <property name="username" value="${jdbc.username}"/>
      <property name="password" value="${jdbc.password}"/>
  </bean>

  <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
      <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
      <property name="mappingResources">
      <list>
          <value>User.hbm.xml</value>
      </list>
      </property>
      <property name="hibernateProperties">
          <props>
              <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
              <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">${hibernate.show_sql}</prop>
              <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}</prop>
          </props>
      </property>
  </bean>

  <bean id="test" init-method="start" class="com.blogspot.swissdev.springservice.Test"/>

  <!-- USER beans, POJO, DAO, Service -->
  <bean id="user" class="com.blogspot.swissdev.springservice.UserImpl" scope="prototype">
  </bean>

  <bean id="userDao" class="com.blogspot.swissdev.springservice.UserDaoImpl">
      <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
  </bean>

  <bean id="userService" class="com.blogspot.swissdev.springservice.UserServiceImpl">
      <property name="userDao" ref="userDao"/>
  </bean>

</beans>

Since I just wanted to get Spring DM and Hibernate to work, I didn't really test the rest, just in case you encounter some bugs.

To setup your workspace with Spring DM read the first part of my previous post.

For this example I used:
Eclipse 3.4 RC3
Spring Dynamic Modules for OSGi(tm) 1.0.2