I had the same frustrating problem. Hibernate 4 appears to have fundamentally changed the way you register for events and the Spring group has not yet caught up. Here’s my annotation-based solution using an init method to register a listener:
@Component
public class HibernateEventWiring {
@Autowired
private SessionFactory sessionFactory;
@Autowired
private SomeHibernateListener listener;
@PostConstruct
public void registerListeners() {
EventListenerRegistry registry = ((SessionFactoryImpl) sessionFactory).getServiceRegistry().getService(
EventListenerRegistry.class);
registry.getEventListenerGroup(EventType.POST_COMMIT_INSERT).appendListener(listener);
registry.getEventListenerGroup(EventType.POST_COMMIT_UPDATE).appendListener(listener);
}
}
An interceptor would be another fine approach, but support for interceptors was mistakenly dropped: https://jira.springsource.org/browse/SPR-8940