Spring DAO and Seam

[shawndgarner]

Is it possible to use Spring JDBC DAO/Template instead of JPA/EJB/Hibernate?
What do you give up by doing that?

Shawn

[youngm]

I may not be understanding your question entirely but I believe you would use Spring JDBC with Seam the same as you would without Seam since Seam doesn't really provide any kind of JDBC features. The main reason you might want to use Seam's JPA/Hibernate with Spring (the spring+seam integration) is to take advantage of conversation scoped persistence contexts.

Does that make sense?

Mike

[shawndgarner]

So could I could define a JDBCTemplate in spring and register it as a seam component and have it have a conversational scope?

[youngm]

JDBC has no concept of a persistence context. Conversation scoped persistence contexts are only valuable with Hibernate and JPA. If you just want to use JDBCTemplate in a Seam component then just define the JDBCTemplate in your spring file and inject it into a Seam component using

@In("#{jdbcTempalte}")

Mike