No Hibernate Session bound to thread

Problem:
I am converting an application that uses HibernateDaoSupport in the DAOs to use POJOs instead.
Each pojo now must autowire a sessionFactory in order to hook into hibernate.

I am getting the following error when i try to getSession() on my sessionFactory:


No Hibernate Session bound to thread, and configuration does not allow creation of non-transactional one here

Solution:
add a OpenSessionInViewFilter to my web.xml and filter on * with it