> > Venturing slightly (more) off-topic, I recently switched from having > my DAOs extend from Spring's HibernateDaoSupport, and using > HibernateTemplate, to just going directly to the Hibernate API. Or, > now, to the JPA API. I don't benefit from Spring's exception > translation that way, but you know what? I don't think that really > matters (in Hibernate 2, it was helpful, but the exceptions have are > now unchecked). If the applications relied on Spring's DAO > exceptions, this could make it harder to switch from Hibernate to JPA.
Just for info, simply tagging your DAO classes with @Repository makes spring handle exception translation. my 2 cents... Nico. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]