Question

If I have a transactionally managed class, in which I have two methods e.g

void OuterMethod(Data somedata)
{
   this.InnerMethod(somedata)
}

@Transactional("mymanager")
void InnerMethod(Data somedata)
{
    //writes some things 
}

is this valid? I can’t get it to write to the database for some reason, although it doesn’t give me any errors.

Answer 1

Spring does not use bytecode
instrumentation to implement AOP. So
it is predictable that if a method of
a proxied object calls an other method
in the same object, the aspect will
not be applied on the method call.
Spring allows however to apply the
aspect on this method call by setting
exposeProxy to True and using
AopContext.currentProxy().

The information might be a bit dated, but to my knowledge it’s still accurate (not sure about the “exposeProxy” flag though)

See http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?t=9926