Hi!
Is there any reason not to use plain Hibernate ?
No. It should work by design. In fact, we use plain Hibernate 3 +
Hiberanate-Annotations which is VERY close to JPA, well, but not exactly.
Does anyone have some sample configuration and DAOs to illustrate how this
could work ?
One of my long-term todos, sorry for still not illustrate how it should
work.
Here [1] you'll find a PersistenceContextFactory which is able to deal
with Hibernate's SessionFactory. The rest is Orchestra standard and you
should be able to work with your entities as previously - using Spring
in your case.
If you need further help, ask again and probably I'll take the time to
setup an example.
Good luck!
Ciao,
Mario
[1] http://l3x.net/imwiki/Wiki.jsp?page=MoreOrchestra