<bean id="sessionFactory" parent="sessionFactoryParent">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
	<property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props merge="true">
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${database.dialect}</prop>
                <prop key="connection.characterEncoding">UTF- 8 </prop>
            </props>
	</property>
    </bean>

    <filter>
        <filter-name>charsetFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>
             org.springframework.web.filter.CharacterEncodingFilter
        </filter-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>encoding</param-name>
            <param-value>UTF- 8 </param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>forceEncoding</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
    </filter>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>charsetFilter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>

    @Autowired
     private  CommentsDao commentsDao;

...
Comments comment =  new  Comments();
...
comment.setComment("Привет!");
commentsDao.addComment(comment);

<?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:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
     xmlns:tx="http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx"
     xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
     xsi:schemaLocation="
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/tx/spring-tx-3.0.xsd
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-2.5.xsd
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
     http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd">

    <context:property-placeholder location="classpath:application.properties"/>

    <bean name="dataSource" class="org.springframework.jdbc.datasource.DriverManagerDataSource">
        <property name="driverClassName" value="${database.driverClassName}" />
        <property name="url" value="${database.url}" />
        <property name="username" value="${database.user}" />
        <property name="password" value="${database.password}" />
    </bean>

    <bean id="sessionFactoryParent" abstract="true" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.annotation.AnnotationSessionFactoryBean">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
	<property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props>
<!--            <prop key="hibernate.hbm2ddl.auto">create</prop>-->
                <prop key="hibernate.show_sql">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.format_sql">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.cache.use_second_level_cache">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.cache.use_query_cache">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.cache.provider_class">net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.SingletonEhCacheProvider</prop>
                <prop key="net.sf.ehcache.configurationResourceName">ehcache.xml</prop>
            </props>
	</property>
	<property name="annotatedClasses">
            <list>
                <value>com.mycom.appbook.model.Account</value>
                <value>com.mycom.appbook.model.Authorities</value>
                <value>com.mycom.appbook.model.Books</value>
                <value>com.mycom.appbook.model.Comments</value>
            </list>
	</property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="sessionFactory" parent="sessionFactoryParent">
        <property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource" />
	<property name="hibernateProperties">
            <props merge="true">
                <prop key="hibernate.dialect">${database.dialect}</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.connection.Useunicode">true</prop>
                <prop key="hibernate.connection.charSet">UTF- 8 </prop>
                <prop key="connection.characterEncoding">UTF- 8 </prop>
            </props>
	</property>
    </bean>

    <bean id="transactionManager" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateTransactionManager">
        <property name="sessionFactory" ref="sessionFactory"/>
    </bean>

    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="transactionManager"/>
</beans>

     public   void  setComment(String comment) {
         this .comment = comment;
    }