...This library allows MyBatis to participate in Spring transactions, takes care of building MyBatis mappers and SqlSessions and inject them into other beans, translates MyBatis exceptions into Spring DataAccessExceptions, and finally, it lets you build your application code free of dependencies on MyBatis, Spring or MyBatis-Spring. Spring version 2 only supports iBATIS version 2. An attempt was made to add MyBatis 3 support into Spring 3 (see the Spring Jira issue. Unfortunately, Spring 3 development ended before MyBatis 3 was officially released. Because the Spring team did not want to release with code based on a non-released version of MyBatis, official Spring support would have to wait.