Using HTablePool with HbaseTemplate.

PooledHTableFactory.java

package sample.utils;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTableInterface;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTableInterfaceFactory;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTablePool;

public class PooledHTableFactory implements HTableInterfaceFactory {

  private HTablePool tablePool;

	public PooledHTableFactory(HTablePool tablePool) {
		this.tablePool = tablePool;
	}

	@Override
	public HTableInterface createHTableInterface(Configuration config,
			byte[] tableName) {
		return tablePool.getTable(tableName);
	}

	@Override
	public void releaseHTableInterface(HTableInterface table)
			throws IOException {
		table.close();
	}

}

spring.xml

<bean id="hbaseTemplate" class="org.springframework.data.hadoop.hbase.HbaseTemplate"
  p:configuration-ref="hbaseConfiguration" p:tableFactory-ref="tableFactory" />

<bean id="tablePool" class="org.apache.hadoop.hbase.client.HTablePool">
	<constructor-arg ref="hbaseConfiguration" />
	<constructor-arg value="#" />
</bean>

<bean id="tableFactory" class="sample.utils.PooledHTableFactory">
	<constructor-arg ref="tablePool" />
</bean>