Field session in 'xxxDAOImpl required a bean of type 'org.hibernate.SessionFactory' that could not be found

Question

I am getting the following error (from I believe, the Dao layer - but I could be reading this wrong).

I have a Spring boot app that right now, creates a DB schema. The tables are being create properly but when I tried adding the Dao and DaoImpl files, it crashes with the error message below:

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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:

Field session in xx.dao.ParkingSpaceDaoImpl required a bean of type 'org.hibernate.SessionFactory' that could not be found.


Action:

Consider defining a bean of type 'org.hibernate.SessionFactory' in your configuration.

In my DaoImpl file, I have:

@Repository 
public class xxDaoImpl implements xxDao {
    @Autowired
    private SessionFactory session;

Here's how my POM.xml file looks:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>xx.xx</groupId>
    <artifactId>xxx</artifactId>
    <version>1.0</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>1.4.1.RELEASE</version>
        <relativePath/> 
    </parent>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
        <java.version>1.8</java.version>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-jdbc</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>mysql</groupId>
            <artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
            <version>5.1.9</version>
        </dependency>


    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>


</project>

Does anyone have any idea as to how I fix this? Please let me know, thanks.

Solution

So I found a solution that works for me. Mathias was probably right if you are working with a configuration .xml file. But for those who are using an application.properties file, you need to add this line to your configuration class or main application class:

@Bean  
public SessionFactory sessionFactory(HibernateEntityManagerFactory hemf){  
    return hemf.getSessionFactory();  
}   

Once done, add this line to the application.properties file:

spring.jpa.properties.hibernate.current_session_context_class=org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SpringSessionContext

This solution worked for me. Here are additional references that I was able to work off of:

http://www.ekiras.com/2016/02/how-to-use-configure-session-factory-bean-springboot.html

Spring Boot - Handle to Hibernate SessionFactory