A tutorial to show how to integrate Hibernate with in a web application developed with Apache Struts 1.x.

Download It – Struts-Hibernate-Example.zip

Steps of the integration :

  1. Create a new Hibernate Struts plug-in file to set the Hibernate session factory in servlet context, and include this file in struts-config.xml file.
  2. In Struts, get the Hibernate session factory from servlet context, and do whatever Hibernate task you want.

1. Hibernate Struts Plug-in

Create a Hibernate Struts Plug-in, get the Hibernate session factory, store it into the servlet context for later user – servlet.getServletContext().setAttribute(KEY_NAME, factory);.

package com.mkyong.common.plugin;
 
import java.net.URL;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
 
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet;
import org.apache.struts.action.PlugIn;
import org.apache.struts.config.ModuleConfig;
import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.MappingException;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
 
public class HibernatePlugin implements PlugIn {
   private Configuration config;
   private SessionFactory factory;
   private String path = "/hibernate.cfg.xml";
   private static Class clazz = HibernatePlugin.class;
 
   public static final String KEY_NAME = clazz.getName();
 
   public void setPath(String path) {
      this.path = path;
   }
 
   public void init(ActionServlet servlet, ModuleConfig modConfig)
      throws ServletException {
 
      try {
 
    	 //save the Hibernate session factory into serlvet context
         URL url = HibernatePlugin.class.getResource(path);
         config = new Configuration().configure(url);
         factory = config.buildSessionFactory();
         servlet.getServletContext().setAttribute(KEY_NAME, factory);
 
      } catch (MappingException e) {
         throw new ServletException();
      } catch (HibernateException e) {
         throw new ServletException();
      }
 
   }
 
   public void destroy() {
      try {
         factory.close();
      } catch (HibernateException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
      }
   }
}

2. struts-config.xml

Include the Hibernate Struts plug-in into the Struts configuration file (struts-config.xml).

<struts-config>
    ...
    <plug-in className="com.mkyong.common.plugin.HibernatePlugin">
      	<set-property property="path" value="/hibernate.cfg.xml"/>
    </plug-in>
	...
<struts-config>

3. Get the Hibernate session factory

In Struts action class, you can get the Hibernate session factory from servlet context.

servlet.getServletContext().getAttribute(HibernatePlugin.KEY_NAME);

and do whatever Hibernate task as normal.

package com.mkyong.customer.action;
 
import java.util.Date;
 
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 
import org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils;
import org.apache.struts.action.Action;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForm;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionForward;
import org.apache.struts.action.ActionMapping;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
 
import com.mkyong.common.plugin.HibernatePlugin;
import com.mkyong.customer.form.CustomerForm;
import com.mkyong.customer.model.Customer;
 
public class AddCustomerAction extends Action{
 
  public ActionForward execute(ActionMapping mapping,ActionForm form,
	HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response) 
  throws Exception {
 
        SessionFactory sessionFactory = 
	         (SessionFactory) servlet.getServletContext()
                            .getAttribute(HibernatePlugin.KEY_NAME);
 
	Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();
 
	CustomerForm customerForm = (CustomerForm)form;
	Customer customer = new Customer();
 
	//copy customerform to model
	BeanUtils.copyProperties(customer, customerForm);
 
	//save it
	customer.setCreatedDate(new Date());
 
	session.beginTransaction();
	session.save(customer);
	session.getTransaction().commit();
 
	return mapping.findForward("success");
 
  }
}

Done.

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