Are you sure? Link that you've mentioned is speaking about org.springframework.orm.jpa.LocalContainerEntityManagerFactoryBean but org.springframework.orm.hibernate5.LocalSessionFactoryBean is not working (or, at least, I was not able to find way to make it work) with Hibernate ORM 5.1 so I am not only forced to forget Hibernate 5.2 but also Spring & Spring Integration 4.3