I found many useful posts about how to replace HibernateTemplate with SessionFactory directly, however HibernateTemplate has a number of helper methods like `findByCriteria`, is there any open source project which helps in this regard ?

To repharse my question, if I swap out HibernateTemplate is there any open source project which will provide me with the utility methods that HibernateTemplate used to provide ?

Thanks
Sudarshan