My application-context.xml is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN//EN" "http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans.dtd">
<beans>

<bean id="myDataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp.BasicDataSource" destroy-method="close">
    <property name="driverClassName"><value>com.mysql.jdbc.Driver</value></property>
    <property name="url"><value>jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/myDB</value></property>
    <property name="username"><value>myUser</value></property>
    <property name="password"><value>myUser</value></property>

</bean>
<bean id="mySessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
    <property name="mappingResources">
   <property name="dataSource"><ref bean="myDataSource"/></property>
<list>
<value>com/x/model/config/hibernate/user.hbm.xml</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="hibernateProperties" >
<value>
hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
</value>
</property>
</bean>

<bean id="userdao" class="com.x.y.z.UserDao">
<property name="sessionFactory"><ref bean="mySessionFactory"/></property>
</bean>
</beans>

user.hbm.xml is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE hibernate-mapping PUBLIC "-//Hibernate/Hibernate Mapping DTD//EN"
        "http://hibernate.sourceforge.net/hibernate-mapping-3.0.dtd">

<hibernate-mapping package="com.cpt.model">
<class name="User" table="user">
<id name="userId" column="id">
     <generator class="native"/>
</id>

 <property name="firstname" column="firstName" />
 <property name="lastName" column="lastName"/>
 <property name="login" column="login"/>
 <property name="pass" column="pass"/>
 <property name="superemail" column="superEmail"/>
 </class>

</hibernate-mapping>

and the UserDao is

package com.x.y.z;

import java.sql.Connection;
import java.sql.DriverManager;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.sql.Statement;

import org.hibernate.HibernateException;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.hibernate.cfg.Configuration;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.orm.hibernate.support.HibernateDaoSupport;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

import com.x.model.User;



@Component
public class UserDao {

 private SessionFactory sessionFactory; 




    public void addUser(User user) {
        Session session;
        try {
            try {
            session =  getSessionFactory().openSession();
            //  session = sessionFactory.openSession();

                session.save(user);
            } catch (RuntimeException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        } catch (HibernateException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            System.out.println("printing in the catch");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }



    public SessionFactory getSessionFactory() {

        System.out.println("returning session factory ::: sessionFactory == null :: "+sessionFactory.openSession());
        return sessionFactory;
    }

    public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory sessionFactory) {
        System.out.println("this is setting session factory" + sessionFactory.getClass());
        System.out.println("setting session factory ::: sessionFactory == null :: "+sessionFactory==null);

        this.sessionFactory = sessionFactory;
        System.out.println("setting session factory ::: sessionFactory == null :: "+this.sessionFactory.openSession().getClass());
        System.out.println(getSessionFactory().openSession().isOpen());
    }

}

However, I keep getting

14:45:09,929 INFO  [org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl] building session fact
ory
14:45:09,933 WARN  [net.sf.ehcache.config.Configurator] No configuration found.
Configuring ehcache from ehcache-failsafe.xml found in the classpath: vfs:/C:/jb
/server/default/deploy/C.war/WEB-INF/lib/ehcache-1.1.jar/ehcache-failsafe.xml
14:45:10,007 INFO  [org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryObjectFactory] Not binding
factory to JNDI, no JNDI name configured
14:45:10,008 INFO  [org.hibernate.impl.SessionFactoryImpl] Checking 0 named quer
ies
14:45:10,017 INFO  [STDOUT] this is setting session factoryclass $Proxy178
14:45:10,017 INFO  [STDOUT] false
14:45:10,019 INFO  [STDOUT] setting session factory ::: sessionFactory == null :
: class org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl
14:45:10,020 INFO  [STDOUT] returning session factory ::: sessionFactory == null
 :: org.hibernate.impl.SessionImpl(PersistentContext[entitiesByKey={}] ActionQue
ue[insertions=[] updates=[] deletions=[] collectionCreations=[] collectionRemova
ls=[] collectionUpdates=[]])

It is giving sessionFactory null . Any Idea where am I failing ? Thanks