Hibernate Event Listeners with Spring

You can configure your Hibernate event listeners via your spring-context.xml.
When you declare your Bean from type org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean you can initilize the property "eventListeners". This attribute is from type Map. The key defines the type of the event listeners (e.g. flush, load, delete, etc.). The value defines the corresponding class which implements the EventListener interface or extend the DefaultEventListener implementation class.

Sample of your context.xml

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
 ...
 <property name="eventListeners">
  <map>  
   <entry key="flush">
    <bean class="org.j4fry.hibernate.eventlisteners.FlushEventListener" />
   </entry>
  </map>
 </property>  
 ...
</bean>

Sample of a FlushEventListener

package org.j4fry.hibernate.eventlisteners;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.event.FlushEvent;
import org.hibernate.event.def.DefaultFlushEventListener;

public class FlushEventListener extends DefaultFlushEventListener {
    public void onFlush(FlushEvent fe) throws HibernateException {
        super.onFlush(fe);
    }
}

List of keys and the corresponding Interfaces and implementation-classes

Map-Key	Interface	Default implementation class
auto-flush	AutoFlushEventListener
delete	DeleteEventListener
dirty-check	DirtyCheckEventListener
evict	EvictEventListener
flush-entity	FlushEntityEventListener
flush	FlushEventListener
load-collection	InitializeCollectionEventListener
load	LoadEventListener
lock	LockEventListener
merge	MergeEventListener
create-onflush	PersistEventListener
post-delete	PostDeleteEventListener
post-insert	PostInsertEventListener
post-load	PostLoadEventListener
post-update	PostUpdateEventListener
pre-delete	PreDeleteEventListener
pre-insert	PreInsertEventListener
pre-load	PreLoadEventListener
pre-update	PreUpdateEventListener
refresh	RefreshEventListener
replicate	ReplicateEventListener
save-update	SaveOrUpdateEventListener