Spring Hibernate - No se pudo obtener la sesión sincronizada con la transacción para el hilo actual

He creado una aplicación con spring + hibernate, pero siempre obtengo este error. Esta es mi primera aplicación con hibernate, he leído algunas guías pero no puedo resolver este problema. ¿Dónde estoy haciendo mal?

Este es el código de mi solicitud

ott 05, 2014 4:03:06 PM org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext prepareRefresh
Informazioni: Refreshing   org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext@1eab16b: startup date  [Sun Oct 05 16:03:06 CEST 2014]; root of context hierarchy
ott 05, 2014 4:03:06 PM org.springframework.beans.factory.xml.XmlBeanDefinitionReader loadBeanDefinitions
Informazioni: Loading XML bean definitions from class path resource [springConfig.xml]
ott 05, 2014 4:03:08 PM org.hibernate.annotations.common.reflection.java.JavaReflectionManager <clinit>
INFO: HCANN000001: Hibernate Commons Annotations {4.0.5.Final}
ott 05, 2014 4:03:08 PM org.hibernate.Version logVersion
INFO: HHH000412: Hibernate Core {4.3.6.Final}
ott 05, 2014 4:03:08 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment <clinit>
INFO: HHH000206: hibernate.properties not found
ott 05, 2014 4:03:08 PM org.hibernate.cfg.Environment buildBytecodeProvider
INFO: HHH000021: Bytecode provider name : javassist
ott 05, 2014 4:03:09 PM org.hibernate.dialect.Dialect <init>
INFO: HHH000400: Using dialect: org.hibernate.dialect.MySQL5Dialect
ott 05, 2014 4:03:09 PM org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.TransactionFactoryInitiator initiateService
INFO: HHH000399: Using default transaction strategy (direct JDBC transactions)
ott 05, 2014 4:03:09 PM org.hibernate.hql.internal.ast.ASTQueryTranslatorFactory <init>
INFO: HHH000397: Using ASTQueryTranslatorFactory
Exception in thread "main" org.hibernate.HibernateException: Could not obtain transaction-synchronized Session for current thread
at org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.SpringSessionContext.currentSession(SpringSessionContext.java:134)
at org.hibernate.internal.SessionFactoryImpl.getCurrentSession(SessionFactoryImpl.java:1014)
at coreservlets.StudentDAOImpl.create(StudentDAOImpl.java:19)
at coreservlets.MainApp.main(MainApp.java:14)

Estudiante.java

package coreservlets;

public class Student {

    private Integer id;
    private String name;
    private Integer age;

    public Integer getId(){return id;}//getId

    public void setId(Integer id){this.id=id;}//setId

    public String getName(){return name;}//getName

    public void setName(String name){this.name=name;}//setName

    public Integer getAge(){return age;}//getAge

    public void setAge(Integer age){this.age=age;}//setAge

}//Student

package coreservlets;

import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;

public interface StudentDAO {

    public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory sessionFactory);

    public void create(String name,Integer age);

}//StudentDAO

StudentDAOImpl.java

package coreservlets;

import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Repository;

@Repository
public class StudentDAOImpl implements StudentDAO {

    private SessionFactory sessionFactory;

    @Autowired
    public void setSessionFactory(SessionFactory sessionFactory){
        this.sessionFactory=sessionFactory;
    }//setSessionFactory

    public void create(String name,Integer age){
        Session session=sessionFactory.getCurrentSession();
        Student student=new Student();
        student.setName(name);
        student.setAge(age);
        session.save(student);
    }//create

}//StudentDAOImpl

MainApp.java

package coreservlets;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class MainApp {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ApplicationContext context=new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("springConfig.xml");

        StudentDAOImpl student=(StudentDAOImpl) context.getBean("studentDAOImpl");

        student.create("Alessandro", new Integer(33));


    }//main

}//MainApp

SpringConfig.xml

<?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:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.1.xsd
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.1.xsd">

<context:annotation-config/>

<context:component-scan base-package="coreservlets"/>

<bean id="dataSource" class="org.apache.commons.dbcp2.BasicDataSource">
  <property name="driverClassName" value="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"/>
  <property name="url" value="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/spring_hibernate"/>
  <property name="username" value="root"/>
  <property name="password" value="password"/>
  <property name="initialSize" value="5"/>
  <property name="maxTotal" value="10"/>
</bean>

<bean id="sessionFactory" class="org.springframework.orm.hibernate4.LocalSessionFactoryBean">
<property name="dataSource" ref="dataSource"/>
<property name="hibernateProperties">
    <value>
            hibernate.dialect=org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLDialect
    </value>
</property>

</bean>

</beans>

Sql

create table student
(
id integer not null auto_increment,
name varchar(20) not null,
age integer not null,
primary key(id)
);