Good Stub from other sites :

Spring+Hibernate Application with zero XML

Spring framework came up with Annotation support since 2.5 version which eases the 
development. Whether Annotation based approach better or XML approach is better is 
depends on the project and their personal preference.

This is very good example for zero xml.

- See more at: http://www.sivalabs.in/2011/02/springhibernate-application-with-zero.html#sthash.G1pYeuBl.dpuf