Spring boot focusses on using JPA to persist data in relational db and it has ability to create repository implementations automatically, at runtime, from a repository interface. But here we will try to inject session factory and integrate hibernate with spring boot.   This article is about integrating spring boot with hibernate. Here, we will be using spring boot 1.5.1 and hence by default it will be hibernate 5 configurations. We will be creating sample spring boot hibernate example having some rest endpoints exposed through spring controller. The dao class will have sessionFactory injected which will be used to create hibernate session and connect to database. We will be using mysql database.   Find full article at - Working with Spring Boot and Hibernate