Hibernate Spatial extension together with Spring running on a Tomcat 
I have done a lot of projects based on Hibernate (JPA2), Spring, Tomcat (Jetty for test) and Maven (http://www.wiegand.dk/wordpress/?p=51). The basic setup is not easy – but once done correct – it can be reused in most projects afterwards.
Some years ago my company (http://northtech.dk/) moved its main focus from general software architecture to the GEO sector. Because of that we are adding the GEO perspective to all our utilities and frameworks. This article is about how to add GEO awareness to our core JAVA paradigm (http://www.wiegand.dk/wordpress/?p=51).