Spring + Hibernate4 Error CurrentSessionContext is always null - spring

Question

I'm using Hibernate 4 with spring 3.1 in a simple java Apllication.
I use the following code to create the Spring SessionFactory and then convert it into a hibernate SessionFactory:
pls waht is missing here ... Is this the right way to go?? Or do I miss something..? pls help!
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context=new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext(new String[]{"spring.xml"});
return (SessionFactory) context.getBean("mySessionFactory");
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The CurrentSessionContext ofthe sessionfactory is always null!
So I cant execute
sessionFactory.getcurrentSession()
-> gives me an java.lang.NullPointer Exception
myBean Declarations in spring.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.1.xsd">
<bean id="myDataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
<property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
<property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/test"/>
<property name="username" value="root"/>
<property name="password" value=""/>
</bean>
<bean id="mySessionFactory" name="mySessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean" scope="singleton">
<property name="dataSource" ref="myDataSource"/>
<property name="mappingResources">
<list>
<value>TblUrls.hbm.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
<props>
<prop key="hibernate.dialect">org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">update</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.transaction.jta.platform">org.hibernate.service.jta.platform.internal.SunOneJtaPlatform</prop>
<prop key="hibernate.current_session_context_class">org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SpringSessionContext</prop>
</props>
</property>
</bean>
<bean class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.support.OpenSessionInViewInterceptor">
<property name="sessionFactory">
<ref local="mySessionFactory" />
</property>
</bean>
<bean id = "transactionManager" class = "org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.HibernateTransactionManager">
<property name = "sessionFactory" ref = "mySessionFactory" />
</bean>
<!-- <bean id="myProductDao" class="hib.TblUrlsHome"> -->
<!-- <property name="sessionFactory" ref="mySessionFactory"/> -->
<!-- </bean> -->
</beans>

Answer 1

You have to do
sessionFactory.openSession();
This should solve your problem.