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Hibernate PlugIn for Struts I don't know that there's a need for a Hibernate PlugIn for Struts, but I wrote one today just for kicks. Pretty simple stuff that only requires you to have hibernate.cfg.xml in your WEB-INF/classes directory, and to add the following to your struts-config.xml. 

<plug-in className="org.appfuse.webapp.util.HibernatePlugIn"/>

Then create the file org.appfuse.webapp.util.HibernatePlugIn as follows:

public class HibernatePlugIn implements PlugIn {
    //~ Instance fields ========================================================

    private Log log = LogFactory.getLog(HibernatePlugIn.class);

    //~ Methods ================================================================

    public void init(ActionServlet servlet, ModuleConfig config)
    throws ServletException {
        try {
            SessionFactory sf =
                new Configuration().configure().buildSessionFactory();

            if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
                log.debug("Hibernate configuration completed.");
            }
        } catch (HibernateException h) {
            log.fatal("Error configuring Hibernate!", h);
        }
    }

    public void destroy() {}
}

This doesn't seem to have any advantages over using a StartupListener, but it would be pretty sweet if it was included with Struts (or Hibernate), so you could simply put it in struts-config.xml and be done with it. Posted in Java at May 31 2003, 11:31:41 AM MDT 2 Comments