http://stackoverflow.com/questions/734614/spring-hibernate-junit-no-hibernate-session-bound-to-thread
Wrong, that will just fill your code with session management code.
First, add a transaction management bean in your context:
<bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager"> <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/> </bean>
The second thing, extend AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests
public class BaseDALTest extends AbstractTransactionalJUnit4SpringContextTests{
Third thing, annotate you test class with
@TransactionConfiguration @Transactional
If your transaction demarcation is correct(surrounding your dao or service) you should be done.
It's not nice to sprinkle session and transaction handling code all around your code (even inside your tests).