Question

i have two impl packages (contains implementation for service/dao methods)
and i want when creating any new class in this package

the following line gets added to class by default (log instantiation):

Log log = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());

another thing is that i want when adding unimplemented method in the impl package for dao is to add the spring annotation

@Transactionl 

any ideas how to accomplish those things in eclipse (i am using Eclipse Helios 3.6).

Answer 1

I don’t think it’s possible to have a specific template for a given package.

Some notes, though :

• the service layer should demarcate transactions. Not the DAO layer.
• you could inherit a base class with a protected log field, and all the subclasses would inherit it. Since you’re calling initializing the log with getClass(), the actual subclass name would be used.
• Only public methods should be transactional. The other ones aren’t intercepted by Spring, so their transactional annotation would be ignored anyway.
• if you want to have all the methods of a bean to be transactional, put the annotation on the class rather than each individual method.