diff --git a/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/persistence/config/PersistenceConfig.java b/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/persistence/config/PersistenceConfig.java
index f6a0e0d76f..e8f448f4c2 100644
--- a/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/persistence/config/PersistenceConfig.java
+++ b/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/persistence/config/PersistenceConfig.java
@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ import javax.sql.DataSource;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
 import org.springframework.context.annotation.PropertySource;
 import org.springframework.core.env.Environment;
 import org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor;
@@ -18,7 +17,7 @@ import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.EnableTransactionManagement;
 
 import com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
 
-@Configuration
+// @Configuration
 @EnableTransactionManagement
 @PropertySource({ "classpath:persistence-mysql.properties" })
 @ComponentScan({ "org.baeldung.spring.persistence.dao", "org.baeldung.spring.persistence.service" })
diff --git a/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/persistence/config/PersistenceXmlConfig.java b/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/persistence/config/PersistenceXmlConfig.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d8791b6bcc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/java/org/baeldung/spring/persistence/config/PersistenceXmlConfig.java
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package org.baeldung.spring.persistence.config;
+
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ImportResource;
+import org.springframework.transaction.annotation.EnableTransactionManagement;
+
+@Configuration
+@EnableTransactionManagement
+@ComponentScan({ "org.baeldung.spring.persistence.dao", "org.baeldung.spring.persistence.service" })
+@ImportResource({ "classpath:persistenceConfig.xml" })
+public class PersistenceXmlConfig {
+
+    public PersistenceXmlConfig() {
+        super();
+    }
+
+}
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diff --git a/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/resources/persistenceConfig.xml b/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/resources/persistenceConfig.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0dc729f815
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/resources/persistenceConfig.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" 
+   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
+   xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+   xsi:schemaLocation="
+      http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd
+      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-3.2.xsd">
+
+    <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:persistence-mysql.properties" />
+    
+    <bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
+        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
+        <property name="packagesToScan" value="org.baeldung.spring.persistence.model" />
+        <property name="hibernateProperties">
+            <props>
+                <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">${hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto}</prop>
+                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${hibernate.dialect}</prop>
+            </props>
+        </property>
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
+        <property name="driverClassName" value="${jdbc.driverClassName}" />
+        <property name="url" value="${jdbc.url}" />
+        <property name="username" value="${jdbc.user}" />
+        <property name="password" value="${jdbc.pass}" />
+    </bean>
+
+    <bean id="txManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
+        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory" />
+    </bean>
+    
+    <bean id="persistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor" class="org.springframework.dao.annotation.PersistenceExceptionTranslationPostProcessor" />
+
+</beans>
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diff --git a/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml b/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index 5569cc6950..0000000000
--- a/spring-hibernate3-dao/src/main/resources/webSecurityConfig.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<beans:beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/security" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-	xmlns:beans="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/security http://www.springframework.org/schema/security/spring-security-3.1.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.2.xsd">
-
-	<http access-denied-page="/access-denied.html" use-expressions="true">
-		<intercept-url pattern="/access-denied*" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_LOCATION_WRITE','ROLE_POLYGON_WRITE')" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/admin/**" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_ADMIN')" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/organization/**" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_ORGANIZATION')" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/location/edit*" access="hasAnyRole('ROLE_LOCATION_WRITE')" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/location/view*" access="permitAll" />
-
-		<intercept-url pattern="/login*" access="isAnonymous()" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/register*" access="isAnonymous()" />
-		<intercept-url pattern="/login-denied/**" access="isAnonymous()" />
-
-		<intercept-url pattern="/**" access="permitAll" />
-
-		<form-login login-page='/login.html' default-target-url="/" always-use-default-target="false" authentication-failure-url="/login.html?error=true" />
-
-		<logout />
-
-		<anonymous />
-
-		<session-management invalid-session-url="/">
-			<concurrency-control max-sessions="1" />
-		</session-management>
-	</http>
-
-	<authentication-manager alias="authenticationManager" erase-credentials="false">
-		<authentication-provider ref="restAuthenticationProvider" />
-	</authentication-manager>
-
-</beans:beans>
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