Integrate ZK5 with Spring 3 and Hibernate

Author
Vincent Jian, Engineer, Potix Corporation

Date
December 12, 2011

Version
ZK5+, Spring 3, Hibernate 3.6

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Introduction

Fernando De Leon introduced how to integrate ZK2.1.1, Spring and Hibernate. Since ZK have great improvement from version 2 to version 5, this document will demonstrate how to integrate ZK 5.0.x, Spring 3.0 and Hibernate 3.6 with a sample project that connect to MySQL database step by step.

Step 1: MySQL Database Schema

First we create a database in MySQL called support with two tables, company and contact. Here company and contact has one-to-many relationship.

Step 2: Create a Web Application Project

By ZK Studio

• Create a ZK project

If you have installed ZK Studio plugin in Eclispe, refer here to create a simple ZK project.

• Add Spring 3.0.6 jar files

Download jar files from SpringSource Community and copy the following jar files into WEB-INF/lib directory.



• Add Spring 3.0.6 jar files

Download jar files from Hibernate and copy the following jar files into WEB-INF/lib directory.

By Maven

• Create a Maven Project

If you prefer to using maven, refer here to create a ZK project with maven.

• Modify the pom.xml file to add Spring and Hibernate jar files.

a) Add version properties and repositories of Spring and Hibernate.

<properties>
	<zk.version>5.0.9</zk.version>
	<org.springframework.version>3.0.6.RELEASE</org.springframework.version>
	<hibernate.version>3.6.8.Final</hibernate.version>
</properties>
...
<repository>
	<id>repository.springframework.maven.release</id>
	<name>Spring Framework Maven Release Repository</name>
	<url>http://maven.springframework.org/release</url>
</repository>
<repository>
	<id>Hibernate repository</id>
	<url>http://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/groups/public-jboss/</url>
</repository>

b) Add dependencies of Spring and Hibernate

<!-- Spring dependency -->
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
	<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-orm</artifactId>
	<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-web</artifactId>
	<version>${org.springframework.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- Hibernate dependency -->
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
	<artifactId>hibernate-core</artifactId>
	<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
	<artifactId>hibernate-entitymanager</artifactId>
	<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
	<groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
	<artifactId>hibernate-c3p0</artifactId>
	<version>${hibernate.version}</version>
</dependency>
<!-- MySql dependency start -->
<dependency>
	<groupId>mysql</groupId>
	<artifactId>mysql-connector-java</artifactId>
	<version>5.1.18</version>
</dependency>

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