[Springframework-developer] Hibernate Configuration and SessionFactory

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Hello,
  I want use SessionFactory and Configuration classes for metadata API (property name type, database name, type, length etc)
I use spring's HibernateDaoSupport, but getSessionFactory is protected and I can't use it in my DAO (why ? - I can make method for get SessionFactory,
but I don't know why this is protected/forbiden)

How I get instance classes Configuration and SessionFactory ?

regards
Haris Peco