From e6272312a897acc53fb1ea4375b0b4ad60f35b30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Juergen Hoeller <jhoeller@vmware.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:48:21 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] allow "packagesToScan" to be optional on
 LocalSessionFactoryBean (SPR-8812)

---
 .../orm/hibernate4/LocalSessionFactoryBean.java               | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/org.springframework.orm/src/main/java/org/springframework/orm/hibernate4/LocalSessionFactoryBean.java b/org.springframework.orm/src/main/java/org/springframework/orm/hibernate4/LocalSessionFactoryBean.java
index 28c5ada996..ca1265ce92 100644
--- a/org.springframework.orm/src/main/java/org/springframework/orm/hibernate4/LocalSessionFactoryBean.java
+++ b/org.springframework.orm/src/main/java/org/springframework/orm/hibernate4/LocalSessionFactoryBean.java
@@ -307,7 +307,9 @@ public class LocalSessionFactoryBean implements FactoryBean<SessionFactory>, Res
 			sfb.addPackages(this.annotatedPackages);
 		}
 
-		sfb.scanPackages(this.packagesToScan);
+		if (this.packagesToScan != null) {
+			sfb.scanPackages(this.packagesToScan);
+		}
 
 		this.sessionFactory = sfb.buildSessionFactory();
 	}