Question

Suppose I have a Spring bean which has been marked with @Transactional at either class or method level, and I also have, in some Spring XML which uses <aop:config> to add transactional advice.

I think that both configurations can play nicely together, but when Spring creates its context and the proxies, in the event that the configurations are not compatible (eg. PROPAGATION_MANDATORY vs PROPAGATION_NEVER), then which config has seniority?

Answer 1

To make explicit the answer from the duplicate question, you use:

    <tx:annotation-driven transaction-manager="txManager" order="X"/>

    <tx:advice id="txAdvice" transaction-manager="txManager">

    <aop:config>
            <aop:pointcut id="pointcut" expression="..."/>
            <aop:advisor advice-ref="txAdvice" pointcut-ref="pointcut" order="Y"/>
    </aop:config>

… where the lower of ‘X’ and ‘Y’ has priority.

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