Hi, I am using EJB container and having Spring configuration and Hibernate as well. How can I use Spring and load SessionFactory of Hibernate in EJB Container, knowing quite well that filter and servlet context loader will not work in ejb container? Please help. Thanks, Guddu http://freesourceutilityhelp.googlepages.com/

Hi, I think i understood what you mean. You have set of spring config files which you want to have it loaded in EJB container. Had you had a web container, you should have been able to load through startup servlet/web.xml. In case of just alone a EJB container, i think you can use static block of code to initialize the spring config files. Regards, Sridhar

knowing quite well that filter and servlet context loader will not work in ejb container?

I think filter and servlet context loader may not be used in EJB container, and where can I use static code for loading applicationContext.xml file and how? Thanks in advance. Guddu http://freesourceutilithelp.googlepages.com

The Spring Reference Guide has a chapter on exactly how to do this: http://static.springframework.org/spring/docs/2.5.x/reference/ejb.html#ejb-implementation Basically, I'll assume you're using EJB 2.x stateless session beans, so your EJB should extend AbstractStatelessSessionBean, and then in your ejb-jar.xml file you specify an resource environment variable, at "ejb/BeanFactoryPath", that references the path to your spring configuration file. For example: ejb/BeanFactoryPath java.lang.String applicationContext.xml Note that applicationContext.xml must be in the EJB containers classpath, that is, it can't be in the WEB-INF folder of a web app.