Field session in 'xxxDAOImpl required a bean of type 'org.hibernate.SessionFactory' that could not be found
<p>I am getting the following error (from I believe, the Dao layer - but I could be reading this wrong). </p>

<p>I have a Spring boot app that right now, creates a DB schema. The tables are being create properly but when I tried adding the Dao and DaoImpl files, it crashes with the error message below: </p>

<pre><code>***************************
APPLICATION FAILED TO START
***************************

Description:

Field session in xx.dao.ParkingSpaceDaoImpl required a bean of type 'org.hibernate.SessionFactory' that could not be found.


Action:

Consider defining a bean of type 'org.hibernate.SessionFactory' in your configuration.
</code></pre>

<p>In my DaoImpl file, I have: </p>

<pre><code>@Repository 
public class xxDaoImpl implements xxDao {
    @Autowired
    private SessionFactory session;
</code></pre>

<p>Here's how my POM.xml file looks: </p>

<pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;

    &lt;groupId&gt;xx.xx&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;xxx&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;1.0&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;packaging&gt;jar&lt;/packaging&gt;

    &lt;parent&gt;
        &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
        &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-parent&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;version&gt;1.4.1.RELEASE&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;relativePath/&gt; 
    &lt;/parent&gt;

    &lt;properties&gt;
        &lt;project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.build.sourceEncoding&gt;
        &lt;project.reporting.outputEncoding&gt;UTF-8&lt;/project.reporting.outputEncoding&gt;
        &lt;java.version&gt;1.8&lt;/java.version&gt;
    &lt;/properties&gt;

    &lt;dependencies&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-data-jpa&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-jdbc&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;
        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-web&lt;/artifactId&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;

        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-starter-test&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;scope&gt;test&lt;/scope&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;

        &lt;dependency&gt;
            &lt;groupId&gt;mysql&lt;/groupId&gt;
            &lt;artifactId&gt;mysql-connector-java&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;version&gt;5.1.9&lt;/version&gt;
        &lt;/dependency&gt;


    &lt;/dependencies&gt;

    &lt;build&gt;
        &lt;plugins&gt;
            &lt;plugin&gt;
                &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.boot&lt;/groupId&gt;
                &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-boot-maven-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
            &lt;/plugin&gt;
        &lt;/plugins&gt;
    &lt;/build&gt;


&lt;/project&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Does anyone have any idea as to how I fix this? Please let me know, thanks. </p>